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...years ago Dr. Paul Bauer took Bavarian mountain climbers to scale 28,146-ft. Kanchenjunga on the India-Thibet frontier. Blizzards and avalanches thwarted the party. Last year another German group under Professor Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth tried, failed, turned to and surmounted neighboring Jonsong Peak, altitude 24,340 ft. This summer Dr. Bauer again essayed Kanchenjunga...
...statesman, certainly became Germany's best hated man. As Secretary of State without Portfolio at the time of the Armistice, it was his melancholy duty not only to sign the Armistice but to persuade Germany that she had to accept the Versailles Treaty. Schultz and Tillessen, two Bavarian Nationalists acting under orders from German secret societies, murdered him in the Black Forest...
Died. Isaac Gimbel, 74, board chairman and retired president of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Gimbel Bros, and Saks, seven department stores in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh); of bronchial pneumonia, after several years paralysis; at "Chieftains," his Port Chester, N. Y. home. Born in Vincennes, Ind., son of a Bavarian immigrant storekeeper, he grew up in the business, ran many a store with his father and his brother Jacob. Opening the Manhattan store in 1910, he succeeded President Jacob ("The Judge") Gimbel at his death in 1922, merged the business with Saks & Co. in 1923. He retired...
...become the fixture he is at Cornell. When he meets with Book & Bowl, Cornell's carousing literary society, he reads verses, funny monologs. Once a year the literary society meets as his guest, drinks a barrel of Scranton's best beer, eats Rym Berry's famed imported Bavarian pretzels...
Since the death of Siegfried Wagner last summer, rumors and schemes for future Bayreuth Festivals have emanated from the little Bavarian village like steam from the spout of a teakettle. Most stories have concerned Conductor Arturo Toscanini whose stock has at present greater international value than that of any living conductor. Toscanini, said one rumor, would take over the complete artistic direction. He might even build a home in Bayreuth, pass the rest of his summers there...