Former student, University Professor, and provost Fritz Stern, 80, has just published a memoir called Five Germanys I Have Known, covered today in the Times Book Review. It’s a good review, and when we find the time we plan on reading (or at least skimming) the book. But we think everyone should take a look at the photo the Times ran: Stern is the one on the left. The gentleman standing is his classmate, good friend, and co-chairman, in 1944, of Columbia’s “Roosevelt for President,” Allen Ginsberg. They’re sitting in one of those benches on the eastern edge of Riverside Park, and that’s gotta be something like 113th/114th Street behind them. Cool stuff! 

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