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Otto Dibelius is a classic product of this Protestant Germany, and a witness to its unique spiritual and political character. "Every country," he is fond of saying, "has the religion it deserves. Every religion has the people who suit...
...taken her in. The U.N. Civil Assistance Command has been looking after the Ahns for a couple of years; the kids are outfitted in olive-drab pants. Mrs. Ahn wears a dogskin neckpiece, a relic of the old days, of which she is very fond; at 31, a widow in a country where widows are unwanted, Mrs. Ahn has not much to look forward to, but if she can find her father, they will make a home...
After his father's death in 1950, Lobo moved his 10,000 volumes on Napoleon, his collection of Goyas and Gainsboroughs and his two daughters into the old man's palace in staid Vedado. A fond, though divorced, father, he used to paste thought-provoking newspaper articles on his daughters' boudoir mirrors, made them eat ground-up egg shells to add calcium for brain food, and urged them to sit under a mango tree in the family patio because he has received some of his best inspiration in its shade...
Fair, who met his wife while both were studying the violin in Germany, is especially fond of classical music. "Brahms is my favorite composer," he chuckles, "but that date...
Seton Hall Basketball Coach John ("Honey") Russell is fond of saying: "With Walter Dukes, you could play four midgets and still have a helluva team." In the next breath, Russell is apt to reverse himself and announce that towering (6 ft. 11 in.) Dukes would not be any good without his present playmates. The truth lies somewhere in between. Last week Seton Hall's Dukes & Co. was the nation's No. 1 team (for the third week in a row in both A.P. and U.P. polls); Dukes was third among major-college scorers* (average: 26.86 points a game...