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...down the Delaware toward Philadelphia. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's money came from an old New York fortune. Snobbish Philadelphia hates the Pinchots because their social life centres in Manhattan, where Mrs. Pinchot, as a descendant of Peter Cooper, can indulge with impunity her eccentricities against a Colony Club background. It was to New York, not Philadelphia, that Governor Pinchot traveled last winter for hospital care when he was down with a painful case of shingles (TIME...
...murderers of Horst Wessel. Everyone knows that the "Horst Wessel Lied" is Nazi Germany's unofficial anthem and greatest marching song.* Horst Wessel was also a man, an insignificant song writer and storm trooper, carefully chosen as a party hero because there was something in his background to appeal to almost every one of the heterogeneous groups that make up the Nazi party. Horst Wessel was the son of a well-known Lutheran pastor; that was for the Conservatives. He was a registered law student at the University of Berlin; that was for the Intellectuals. He was a that...
Conductor Janssen likes to have people forget his Hofbrau background. But Father Janssen proudly asks everyone he meets now if they know about his son Werner. Father Janssen is happy, also, on his own account. Repeal business has picked up in the old restaurant on 30th Street, the only one he has left. And he intends to branch out again, open a big place in Rockefeller Center. The new Hofbrau may be ready next winter when Werner's time comes to conduct the Philharmonic...
...together. He wanted to love her but he had a New England conscience which was always shutting her out. In the end, when he persuaded her to prefer abortion to motherhood, it was he who was shut out. Jeffrey, whose time was spent getting himself seduced against a literary background, had luckily acquired a solid woman in his wife Norah. He was always thankful to come home to her, but neither would he let her have any baby but himself. Bruno was a too-coherent professor whose Jewish intelligence paralyzed his will. When the Magazine he loved to talk about...
...attracted many prominent educators. If a more intensive and expensive curriculum is to be established both in courses and tutorial work, for the scholar nucleus; a less-arduous life might well be planned for budding lawyers, doctors, businessmen, clubmen, football coaches, and future unemployed who constitute the solid background of Harvard life and finances. The term "two-degree system" would mean more than two varieties of parchment. Its general operation would liberate the picked scholar from the toils of the more elementary courses, from the stifling contacts of the inferior section meetings, and from the drag of ordinary students...