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...broke the world's records for 200, 300 and 400 meters. Teammate Smith, nicknamed Malolo (flying fish) by his native playmates because he has no Hawaiian name, also swam away last week with the 200-meter crown, from under the nose of its defender, Chicago's Otto Jaretz...
...greatest neuropathologists of Europe was last week denied a license to practice medicine in New York. In 1938 Dr. Otto Marburg and his wife left Vienna on the same train with their late great friend Sigmund Freud. They went to the U.S., Freud to Britain. In New York City, 66-year-old Dr. Marburg was given a Rockefeller research grant, a professor's title at Columbia, a laboratory in vast Montefiore Hospital...
Girded like Siegfrieds, rabid Nazis had labeled evolution a British-Plutocratic-Jewish-Materialist theory. They abused it as "the theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...
Four days later, Julius Leopold Otto, a clerk at the Consulate General in Manhattan, hanged himself in his suburban home. His wife said that he had been despondent...
...names of Nostiz and Otto were crossed off the West Point's passenger list...