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...ttingen bounced Poet Heinrich Heine, who thought more of the town's sausages than of the university's scholars, but welcomed Prince Otto von Bismarck, until debts drove him away. In 1787 it turned out Germany's first female Ph.D. -sloe-eyed Dorothea Schlozer, who at 17 overpowered her examiners while decked out in roses and white muslin. By drawing a variety of young Americans, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Göttingen put a German academic stamp on many U.S. universities...
...Social Sciences, the new professors will include three historians, Ernest R. May, Elliott Perkins '23, and Richard E. Pipes; Otto Eckstein in Economics; Stanley H. Hoffmann in Government...
Actually, the Administration hoped to turn Clay's critical report to its own advantage. As usual, the anti-aid congressional bloc, headed by Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, is out after the program with a meat ax. Now the Administration can point to the Clay report as proof that its own reduced requests are realistic and should not be cut further...
...Mystery of Mayerling." in which her father and Baroness Marie Vetsera died in an apparent murder-suicide pact that left the Austro-Hungarian throne of the Habsburgs without a male heir; in Hütteldorf, Austria. Only five when her father died, she grew up to marry Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz but grew steadily disenchanted with her royal life, divorced him after 23 years to drift into socialism, marry Austrian Social Democrat Leopold Petznek and become known as "the Red Princess...
...film making. She recently celebrated her sixtieth year as an actress and has had a distinguished stage career in addition to her movie credits. Her last visit to Boston was in 1940, when she was touring in Life With Father, and she is currently playing a character role in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal which is being filmed locally...