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There were changes and additions to the curriculum during that year and new Faculty members as well. Professor Otto Pfleiderer of the University of Berlin gave a series of lectures on the "History of the German Philosophy of Religion" and there was some excitement over the presence of Paul Clemen, a visiting professor of art from the University of Bonn. Clemen's lectures were especially well-attended by the new freshmen...
...book of mine called This Way, Miss, I retold a story about Millionaire Otto Kahn and the hunchback wit, Marshall P. Walsh. The banker and the hunchback were walking along Fifth Avenue, and the banker, pointing to a Christian place of worship, said to the hunchback: "This is my church." The hunchback replied: "I thought you were a Jew." The banker said: "I was a Jew." The hunchback looked up at him, walked a few steps, stopped and looked up at the banker again and said: "You know, Mr. Kahn-I was a hunchback...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Otto Preminger says yes, the movie industry should classify its films for age groups. Dore Schary says...
Until five years ago, electronic composers usually achieved their effects with a single speaker; now they have four-track tapes, permitting the use of multiple speakers. Says Cologne's Otto Tomek: "We recently installed 30 speakers around four walls, which gave the impression of a firmament of sound like stars in the sky. It was like being inside a big bell. There is so much to explore with music in space that we will be busy for years...
...paintings were the work of tall, gaunt James Strombotne, 26, one of the most promising of the young figurative artists now working around Los Angeles. Such Hollywood-type collectors as Otto Preminger, Andre Previn and Billy Wilder own canvases by him, and so does Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Strombotne is featured in Art in America's annual "New Talent, U.S.A.," and the Pasadena Art Museum is planning the most precocious honor of all-a full-fledged retrospective next fall...