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...Author displays an intellect profound, searching, inclusive, an artistry profound and subtle in all his works. These in translation have been Royal Highness, ironic comment on the life of kings; Death in Venice, three short stories; Buddenbrooks, monumental saga of the 19th Century. Son of a merchant, Herr Mann had to write secretly at first, functioning ostensibly as a life insurance salesman...
...sense all the persons of the story are symbols of certain ideas in the muddle that preceded the War. Peeperkorn personifies the strength, the glitter of royalty. What gives the metaphor power is the juxtaposition of death. Author Mann shows how men can adapt themselves to an environment of mortality by forgetting its existence. So countries squabble and chatter in the presence of catastrophe; so men, in the shadow of an enormous horror, pursue their silly and incongruous intrigues...
Engaged. Jean Georges Peter, son of Marc Peter, Swiss Minister to the U. S. (no relative of Peter's famed Milk Chocolate); to Helen Fairchild Mann, of Boston...
...rival sleeping car, the Mann "Boudoir Car" with sleeping compartments set transverse to the car length as in European railway cars, was operated between Boston and Manhattan in 1883; was expensive; could not endure before Pullman Co. aggressiveness...
...works, they are all like the man himself, boldly individualistic. Since he has no patience with the life or art that shelters itself from wind and storm, he finds queer things happen to him. He was born at Tarrytown Heights, N. Y., his one conventional experience. From Horace Mann School, he testifies, he was dismissed as a hopeless moron. At Columbia University they found him a "capital" student, but finding the University after three and a half years a little irksome he blithely whistled good-bye to his diploma and the final semester, to become a painter. From his studies...