Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scarcely had the prison doors closed on the last German war criminal to be convicted by the Allies (TIME, Dec. 26) when they opened again for the first batch to be paroled. A few days before Christmas, 54 second-string war criminals were released from Landsberg, the gloomy fortress prison where 25 years ago Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf; their sentences did not expire until next year, but U.S. authorities cut them short for "good behavior...
Perched on a hillside amid drab housing projects and crumbling Victorian relics, lies London's cluttered Highgate Cemetery. There, in a single grave rest the remains of a onetime 19th Century German beauty, Jenny von Westphalen, her grandson Harry Longuet, her servant girl Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet...
Frivolous Jumps. In the neatly appropriate year of 1900, a discovery was made that was to knock the props from under classical physics. In his Berlin laboratory, Max Planck, a 42-year-old German physicist, was trying to describe mathematically the emission of light by glowing bodies. No one had done it and Planck could not do it either-until, in a sort of desperation, he assumed that light does not flow in a smooth stream, as everyone supposed, but in tiny, indivisible bursts...