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...Encyclopedia and Unified Science; of the second, Foundations of the Theory of Signs. The two are forerunners of 18 more to be published by August 1939. The first 20 pamphlets, comprising two "volumes," are to be the starting point for other volumes. Editor-in-chief of the project is Otto Neurath...
Hulking, booming Otto Neurath, who gives the impression of oozing vitality from every pore, is a social scientist of international distinction. Son of the late Economist Wilhelm Neurath, he was born about 50 years ago in Vienna, became a professor of economics at Vienna's commercial Hochschule. In that city he founded and directed for nine years a museum of social and economic sciences. Of strong socialist leanings in politics, he now lives in The Hague, is writing a book to be called The Life of Modern Man. Some years ago. Dr. Neurath devised a method of conveying social...
...trade calls them), on Broadway, his Old Gold display is by far the most ingenious and costliest ($27,000) of them all. Lit by 4,000 feet of neon tubing and 4,104 electric bulbs that flash off & on under photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs steadily for five minutes, automatically repeats itself, resembles a Walt Disney cinema short. The cartoon shows two elflike characters making love, smoking cigarets, blowing smoke rings ; it will have a different theme every two months. Located at 43rd Street and Broadway, it is a half-block long...
...alleged spies named in the indictments, 14, including a key witness named Dr. Ignatz Griebl, are believed to have left the U. S. Two, Lieut. Commander Udo von Bruen, and Lieut. Commander Hermann Menzel are minor officials of the German War Ministry. In captivity awaiting trial are only four: Otto Hermann Voss, a onetime employe in the experimental section of Seversky Aircraft Corp. at Farmingdale, L. I., charged with shipping information on U. S. Army planes to Germany; Guenther Rumrich; a U. S. Army private named Erich Glaser; red-headed Johanna Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa...
...Chimes of Normandy, Rosalie, Show Bout, and Roberta, such latter-day specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener for the twelve-week festival was a brand new work by owl-faced Old-timer Jerome Kern entitled Gentlemen Unafraid. With a Civil-Wartime libretto carpentered by the experienced hands of Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, Gentlemen Unafraid maintained the best swashbuckling, love & war traditions of the Herbert...