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...going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer he saw action in the Spanish and World Wars. Last week the trustees of the Rosenwald Museum asked the Planetarium's Dr. Fox to double his duties and direct the Museum as well. He accepted the new post, vacant since Otto Theo Kreusser resigned last year...
...same type as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, but Remarque's familiar skeleton is not far under the surface. Three old comrades of the War have found each other again in Berlin, in the days just before Hitler. None of them has prospered in post-War Germany. Otto owns a small garage, Robert (the "I" of the story) and Gottfried work as mechanics; all share and share alike. But repair jobs are few, and it is always a question how long they can keep going. Otto's prize possession is a rattletrap car they call Karl, which...
Meantime the comrades' affairs have not been going well. Business is so bad they have to sell the garage. Robert goes back to his old job of playing the piano in a prostitutes' bar. One day Gottfried is shot down on the street by a Nazi. Otto and Robert comb the city for the murderer, but someone else gets him first. An alarming telegram comes from Pat and Otto motors Robert to the sanatorium. Pat is dying, but it is a costly place to die in, and her money is almost gone. Otto goes back to Berlin, sells...
...game to help its sale when presented last week at $2.34 by Manhattan's R. H. Macy store, were William Randolph Hearst Jr., publisher of the New York American, and Mayor and Mrs. LaGuardia. Other newspaper celebrities who helped launch Editor Spiro's game included Cartoonist Otto Soglow, Columnists Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Heywood Broun and Stanley Walker, famed onetime city editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
Other Freshmen who played: Erik H. Allen, William H. Angoff, Joseph Bloom, Maurice S. Deeker, Jr., Raymond F. Farwell, Jr., Otto W. Fick, Jr., Robert Fleischer, William A. Garside, Hugh Harwood, John F. Hayward Jr., George M. Kahin, Jr., George V. Kaplan, James T. Kirby, Jr., William A. Macintyre, Jr., Roy W. Moore Jr., Willbur I. Moshenberg, Frederick V. O. Reilly, Gerald P. Rooser, Jr., win Ross, Edward H. Rack, Robin, Scully, Robert H. Shepard, Norman C. Updegraff...