Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home from an eleven-week concert tour of Europe, Bandman Duke (Mood Indigo) Ellington reported that he was 16 Ibs. lighter. The secret: "I gave up coffee, tea, and water in Germany-drank nothing but that wonderful German beer. This stuff gets inside you and you feel it's doing something good down there...
That year they had 62 students, the next year 78. By last week the Foreign Student Summer Project seemed to be a solid M.I.T. institution. Among its alumni: a West German who is building Bavaria's first electronic computer, a Norwegian who has discovered a new method of making gelatin out of seaweed, a Finn who has become editor of Finland's leading architectural magazine...
Salves for "curing" cancer of the breast have long been among the most infamous of quack nostrums. Last week a salve got a respectable introduction to some distinguished physicians. At the Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris, an earnest German scientist reported encouraging results in treating breast cancer with a salve containing a chemical derived from a common garden bulb...
...week, 61, and finally cleared by a Bavarian denazification court, Thorak was allowed to make a modest comeback with a postwar show in Salzburg. His most ambitious works, along with the regime they celebrated, had long since been destroyed, e.g., his huge (60 by 36 ft.) marble statue of German road builders, the product of four years' work, had been cut into building blocks. Nonetheless, Thorak had managed to get together 17 pieces of his work including His Last Flight, a limply classical war memorial, to remind Salzburg of just how grandiose he could...
From Germany, after World War I, came some of the most memorable of all accounts of that war (The Case of Sergeant Grischa, All Quiet on the Western Front, etc.). Beyond Defeat is no Grischa or All Quiet, but it is the first of the German World War II novels to reach the U.S., and as such it is an important book...