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...Otto Abetz, Hitler's Ambassador to Paris, got whooping cough...
Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Wendell H. Furry, and Otto Oldenberg, to continue experiments on masses and abundances of isotopes, and in particular to separate in quantities isotopes or gas mixtures by thermal diffusion...
...York City banned two textbooks on German literature which were being used in its public schools. Reason: somebody woke up to the fact that the author, Dr. Otto ("O.K.") Koischwitz, until two years ago in the city's Hunter College, now broadcasts Nazi propaganda from Germany...
...considerable personal expense, after great personal effort, a musician conducted an orchestra to prove to the world that he is not crazy. There have been worse reasons for a concert. Many people suppose that all musicians are more or less wacky.* But hulking, six-and-a-half-foot Otto Klemperer, exiled German conductor, had lately been pictured as something worse...
Last fortnight Otto Klemperer filed suit for $200,000-half for his arrest, half for damaging statements about him-against Dr. Kelly and his wife. Meanwhile he put a 70-piece orchestra through the last of three weeks of rehearsals. He had held auditions for several hundred players, had chosen some women and some Philharmonic men, among others, to play under him. He dug deep into his life savings to pay their salaries and the rental of Carnegie Hall for a night. Conductor Klemperer's concert nearly filled the hall with people, and did fill it with satisfactory sounds...