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...Germany's lean years after World War II, ex-General Staff Major Egon Overbeclc, now 44, financed his studies at Frankfurt University by working for Metallgesellschaft, a widely diversified industrial combine. After earning a doctorate in business administration in 1952, Overbeck stayed on with the company, began to leapfrog up the executive ladder. His big break came in 1956 when he was named chief financial and administrative officer of one of Metallgesell-schaft's major subsidiaries. He was lured away from that post by rival Mannesmann, West Germany's second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Personal File: Sep. 7, 1962 | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms. His life is literary, not political, yet active when the two conflict, for his was the leading test case under the rigorous Austrian muzzlelaw for critics. Works the U. S. may sometime read are: Prinzessin Anna (novel), Martin Overbeck (romance), Kinder u. Freude (drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hops and Plana* | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...mother who impudently refuses, preferring to study art in Paris. The youth discovers his child in a foundling hospital and steals it; he is pursued by the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper and also by his fiancee. Too soon, it seemed to the audience, weary of their company, Norman Overbeck made amends with his original flame and they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...members of the University in the cast are R. E. Shillady '15 as "Overbeck"; R. C. Fenn '15 as "Captain Nat"; and J. W. D. Seymour '17 as "Clem Hawkins." Tickets may be obtained at the door at prices ranging from 50 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN AT SHUBERT | 4/10/1915 | See Source »

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