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Newshawks from the "stupid" democracies also came in for their share of attack. At a press reception, smooth-faced Dr. Otto Dietrich, Nazi press chief, denounced freedom of the press in democracies as "a mask behind which . . . vultures hide their faces." U. S. correspondents smothered chuckles when the serious doctor declared that the duty of a New York journalist is to "tell lies and bow down in the temple of Mammon." Next day the U. S. correspondents facetiously organized the "Most Noble Order of Journalistic Vultures." Members, headed by a First Beak, will salute each other by placing thumbs behind...
...that time he had attracted the attention of two of his father's guests at Oelber, Professional Roman Najuch and Otto Froitzheim, the finest tennist in German history. Froitzheim commented that young Gottfried's brand of tennis was "good." But Gottfried foreshadowing the day when he would become the most self-critical player of his generation, noted: "Good (but, unfortunately, not very good...
While Mensheviks and Bolsheviks struggle for ascendancy, Professor Polezhayev (Nikolai Cherkassov) does not attempt to hide his sympathy for the Bolshevik minority, is boycotted by his students, backbitten by his colleagues, betrayed by Disciple Vorobiev (Otto Zhakov). To express his feelings the professor merely quotes Darwin: "Omne nisi discipulos" ("Heaven deliver me from pupils!"). Accused of being a German spy, he sits down to his birthday banquet alone with his wife...
Last spring Dr. Otto Wick of San Antonio, Tex. won the $500 for a work called The Temples of Peshawur. In the $1,000 competition, under pseudonyms, 40 citizens entered quintets which were judged by Composers Frederick Jacobi and Samuel Gardner, onetime Associate Conductor Modeste Alloo of the Cincinnati Symphony. Last week two movements of the prize-winning quintet were played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake...
...crew developed high fever and nausea and were put ashore. On the high seas 24 more, including kitchen help and dining saloon stewards, took sick with identical symptoms. Twenty-four hours before the Hansa reached New York Harbor the ship's young chief surgeon, Dr. Helmuth Paul Otto Grieshaber was obliged to make up his mind on a point which involved medical ethics, maritime law and business expediency...