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Dapper Harry Oscar Jasper, 54, is a Berlin-born refugee who started a foreign-currency business in 1936. After serving as a private in the British Army during World War II. Jasper quickly built up a small investment bank, joined forces with another Berlin refugee, a sharp lawyer named Friedrich Grunwald. Operating H. Jasper & Co., the two began to move fast, using the take-over expert's favorite tactic: after acquiring the controlling shares of a company, they would sell off its property, lease it back, use the cash acquired to buy more companies. H. Jasper & Co. gathered...
...Germany's pre-World War II Presidents, Friedrich Ebert and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, died in Office. Hitler, who did not call himself President, but was, perished in his Berlin bunker...
Fourth Biggest. The man in Mercedes' driver's seat is foxy Friedrich Flick, 75, a convicted war criminal who lost 80% of his steel fortune at war's end, bought a 37½% interest in Daimler-Benz between 1954 and 1957. Flick has driven Mercedes so fast and furiously that his stock has risen in value from $20 million to $200 million, and he has rocketed back to become Germany's No. 2 industrialist (after Alfried Krupp). Seeking a smaller car for the Mercedes line, Flick had Daimler buy 88% of the competing Auto Union company...
Stuart Atkins, professor of German here at Harvard, discussed "Friedrich Schiller and Ideal Drama," in the final lecture of the Thursday afternoon series last week. He explained the nature of the German dramatist's idealistic philosophy...
August 6, 3 p.m., Lecture, '"Friedrich Schiller and Ideal Drama," Stuart P. Atkins, in Burr Hall B; 8:30 p.m., lecture "On the Theatre," Robert Whitehead, executive producer, Producers Theatre, in Lowell Lecture Hall...