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This week Liibeck put its restored treasures on view as part of a combined celebration of the Marienkirche's 700th anniversary and its reopening for Lutheran services for the first time since 1942. Despite other war damage still only partially repaired, the interior of the Marienkirche looks more as its original decorators intended than it has for 500 years...
...700th birthday of their fusty little city, proud burghers of Emmerich feted the dressiest Nazi. Beefy Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring constantly designs new uniforms to button around his barrel midriff and is said to have caused the Queen of Siam to remark, "He must eat a lot of rice?but no, in Germany it is potatoes." Utterly dazzled by Premier Göring's appearance at Emmerich, the local Tageblatt dashed off a fashion note which Czechoslovak papers picked up last week and printed under mocking headlines...
...first year as manager of the Detroit Tigers, he kept the team unexpectedly in second place for some six weeks. Last week, in a crucial series against the New York Yankees, Detroit won the first game and moved into first place. Next day, when Babe Ruth hit his 700th home run, the Yankees beat Detroit 4-to-2, regained first place. Detroit won the next two games, emerged from the series with a comfortable 17 game lead...
...York Yankees. Only change in the lineup that won the pennant for Washington last year was at right field, Jonathan Stone for old Goose Goslin. The Yankees had two rookie infielders. Babe Ruth planned, in what will doubtless be his last playing season, to make his 700th homerun, get his 2,000th base on balls. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington called Detroit the team to beat. Detroit's new Manager & Catcher Mickey Cochrane, bought for $100,000 from Philadelphia, was not so sure. He and his men lost two games in a row to the Athletics, generally dismantled last...
Everyone in the world named William (or Guillaume, Guglielmo, Willem, Wilhelm, Guilielmus, Guillermo, Guilherme) was invited to an international Congress of Williams in October 1934 at St. Brieuc, France to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Guillaume Pinchon, Bishop of St. Brieuc who in 1225 saved thousands from famine by functioning as Brittany's food dictator...