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...Decision, and it called itself "a new forum for the creative spirit." Most distinguished thing about Decision was the list of writers and intellectuals who had banded together to produce it. Its editor is a German-born exile from Nazi-occupied Czecho-Slovakia and The Netherlands: slight, balding Klaus Mann, son of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Thomas Mann. Editorial advisers include such refugee notables as Dr. Eduard Benes, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, such native littérateurs as Playwright Robert Sherwood, Newsman Vincent Sheean, Editor (of The Nation) Freda Kirchwey, Taletellers Stephen Vincent Benét and Sherwood Anderson...
...friends. Some of his backers: Edgar Kaufmann Jr. of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann department stores; Lawyer Louis Nizer, who lately published a book. Thinking On Your Feet; Mrs. Marcus Koshland of San Francisco; Father Thomas Mann. A Czech citizen, in the U. S. on a visitor's permit, Klaus Mann gets no salary for his editorial labors, is not an officer of Decision, Inc. His only pay is for his articles...
Even without his famed associates, Klaus Mann could do a good job of editing a magazine by simply depending on his family connections. Among his contributors and contributors-to-be are Father Mann, Uncle Heinrich Mann (a novelist too), Sister Erika Mann, Erika's British poet husband Wystan Hugh Auden, Poet Auden's British novelist friend, Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood...
...lawyer) Westrick arrived in the U. S. through the back door from Japan. He brought with him his dark, beautiful wife, and his two boys, Klaus, 9, and Peter, 6. They put up at Manhattan's swank Plaza Hotel. For several weeks, short, stocky, snow-haired, direct-speaking, wound-limping Dr. Westrick did his business from there...
...OTHER GERMANY-Erlka & Klaus Mann-Modern...