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Last week at the Dachau trial of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Mussolini's rescuer, the important witness Dietrich was temporarily excused by special agreement between opposing counsel. Reason: he was urgently needed to supervise the harvest at Landsberg prison, where he is now a life-termer and the indispensable head-gardener...
...American guest was gauche enough to ask the Iron Chancellor's youngest grandson, His Excellency Otto von Bismarck, what he did for a living. "Oh," he said, "I manage my estate" (Friedrichsruh, the family seat near Hamburg...
...studying and analyzing the light of the bright stars. They know almost nothing about the smaller bodies in distant space which are not self-luminous, i.e., planets, meteors, comets. But they suspect a great deal and are forever looking for proof. Last week, in Science magazine, Russian-born Astronomer Otto Struve, head of the observatories of Chicago and Texas Universities, described some delicate observations that allowed him to spot tiny meteors 250 light years (about 1,500,000,000,000,000 miles) away...
...their minds." With the help of the faculty and student council, he started raising money (from students, educators, friends) to found a special summer seminar at Salzburg, Austria-for Europeans only. From U.S. colleges and universities he picked a dozen top educators to teach. He chose erudite Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance) to teach U.S. literature, Italian-born Historian Gaetano Salvemini to teach U.S. history, Anthropologist Margaret Mead for sociology, and James Johnson Sweeney, onetime director of painting and sculpture at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Devotion to Dissonance. Composer Einem's six-act opera was full of clashing, dissonant stridencies, which reflected his devotion to Hindemith, Stravinsky and Mussorgsky, and perhaps his admiration of Duke Ellington. Temperamental, giant-sized (6 ft. 6 in.) Conductor Otto Klemperer found it troublesome to rehearse. He packed his bag, boarded a train for Switzerland. Klemperer's Hungarian assistant was rushed in to take his place...