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Died. Dr. Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, 71, onetime (1927-33) German Ambassador to the U.S. under the Weimar Republic, one of the founders of Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party; of arthritis; in Munich...
Died. Fiske Kimball, 66, longtime (1925-55) director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, restorer of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Robert E. Lee's Stratford (Va.) home; of a stroke; in Munich, Germany. Kimball became director when the museum was only partially built, developed it into one of America's best, acquired the Gallatin Collection (e.g., Picasso's Three Musicians), the $2,000,000 Arensberg Collection (e.g., Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
...North Germany. When he was born, Wilhelm I was Kaiser, Bismarck was Chancellor; his father, a prosperous merchant, had been Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck. His mother was the daughter of a German planter in South America who married a Portuguese Creole. Mann studied literature in Munich, journeyed to Rome, and at 25 had a stupendous success with his first full-length novel, the story of the decay of a bourgeois family similar to his own. Buddenbrooks sold more than a million copies in Germany, brought Mann the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Housecleaning. He married Katja Pringsheim, the daughter of a professor at Munich University, and it was out of his wife's experience in a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients that he built another great success, The Magic Mountain, this time a parable of civilization in decay. The Magic Mountain outsold Hitler's Mein Kampf, but Hitler's quarrel with Mann was based on Mann's nonliterary championing of the old German tradition. One day in 1933, when Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they...
...Hale, University of Virginia history professor and former U.S. Commissioner for Bavaria, to have been one of modern history's most accomplished tax dodgers. According to Hale, whose study in the American Historical Review is based on an analysis of Hitler's income-tax forms seized in Munich at war's end, Hitler owed the government some $150,000 in 1934, after his first year as Reich Chancellor. In December 1934, without any formal legal action or the knowledge of the German public, Hitler was excused from his back taxes, after that enjoyed royalties on Mein Kampf...