"They normally absorb the punishment in silence. It really affected the people who heard it. It was so unusual." He is describing the climactic moment in the 1938 re-match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. Then 24 years old, Schulberg was sitting five or six rows back in Yankee ...
Leaving behind his late father’s ambitions for him to become a civil servant, Hitler saw Vienna as the ideal place to pursue his own youthful dream—to become an artist. But while Hitler’s childhood friend and new roommate, August Kubizek, was immediately accepted to a conservatory to ...