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...autobiography . The two finest that to mind are Bliss Perry's ladly Teach (1935) and Johnson's Campus Versus room (1946). At the other their careers, nine young contributed to the eye opening anthology The New Professors (1960), edited by Robert O. Bowen; particularly valuable are the sections by Otto Butz, Jay A. Young and Glenn Leggett...
High Pressure. Wherever Bach buffs gather, Scherbaum can be found-at the Ansbach Festival, for instance, and in recording studios all over Europe (his recordings have three times won France's Grand Prix du Bisque). When Otto Klemperer embarked on a project to record all six Brandenburg concertos with London's Philharmonia Orchestra, he routed Scherbaum out of bed with a long distance call and implored him to take a morning plane to England. When Scherbaum played the Second Brandenburg in Moscow, the solo trumpeter of the State Symphony Orchestra rushed backstage to embrace...
Dangerous Quarry. The White Sands recovery force, headed by Lieut. Colonel Otto F. Thum, has 250 men and 150 widely assorted vehicles, including Jeeps, 10-ton wreckers, bulldozers, power shovels and 35 airplanes and helicopters. All are needed; the range is as big as Connecticut, and although some parts are bare desert, others are precipitous mountains and dense, hummocky tangles of thorny scrub. Finding small missiles-or fragments of small missiles-in this hairy country is a job for resourceful...
Although his father was a onetime Chicago alderman. Illinois Democrat Otto Kerner, 53, never really developed much stomach for rough-and-tumble politics. "I've never been a ward leader or a county leader, and I'm not interested." he says. Elected Governor in 1960 on his record as a Cook County judge. Kerner began putting off state problems by appointing committees to study them. This summer his procrastination has come home to plague him: Illinois is in the worst fiscal mess since the Depression...
Prospective Buyer. One of Vera's lovers was Dr. Otto Praun, a suave, carefully tailored physician of 65 with a flourishing practice, a sumptuous house outside Munich, a $250,000 estate on Spain's Costa Brava. and a notorious weakness for tall, cool blondes. Their affair lasted for three years, during which time Otto gave Vera the Costa Brava estate...