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...parable of civilization in decay. The Magic Mountain outsold Hitler's Mein Kampf, but Hitler's quarrel with Mann was based on Mann's nonliterary championing of the old German tradition. One day in 1933, when Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they advised. "Bad weather is coming." When Mann did not understand, they added: "The housecleaning will be too much for you." The housecleaning was done by the Nazis: the burning of his books, the revocation of his citizenship...
...with his sons, Alan, 9, and Hugh, 6. He had not seen them since 1949, when he plunged behind the Iron Curtain to hunt for his missing brother, Noel Field, onetime U.S. State Department official. Soon Noel's wife Herra also vanished. Then another Field was reported missing: Erika, Noel's adopted daughter. Released last October after five years in a Polish prison, Hermann Field spent a month "convalescing" in Poland, then continued resting in Switzerland. According to him, the Poles had misconstrued his efforts in 1939 to help Czechs fleeing from the Nazis "as part...
...Communist, as testified by ex-Communist Courier Whittaker [Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor camp in arctic Russia? Tearful Hermann Field was "afraid I'm not much help in an explanation of the whole Field case." Suggested he: "People who have not spent the last five years in a cellar are more likely...
Noel Field disappeared from his hotel in Prague two weeks before Chambers started testifying in the Hiss trial in early 1949. His wife Herta, his brother Hermann, and finally, his adopted daughter Erika Glaser Wallach, went behind the Iron Curtain to look for him. One after another, like the three little Indians, they vanished-one, two, three...
...Andrea Mead Lawrence, the Austrian international giant slalom; at Bad Gas-tein. Competing against Olympic squad members of six nations, Skier Lawrence twisted & turned through the 42-gate course of 1,100 yards in 2102.5, more than three seconds faster than Austria's Erika Mahringer. Third, further boosting U.S. Olympic hopes: Seattle's Janette Burr. CJ ¶Ex-Wisconsin Runner Don Gehrmann, the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile, with a characteristic kick sprint that nipped FBI-Man Fred Wilt by 5 ft. Gehrmann's time, breaking the meet record by more than a second: 4:10.2. Next night...