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From Norway to New Guinea. That was just to Sverdrup's liking. As venturesome as an earlier Norseman named Lief, he was born with "a yen for the different." He quit Norway at 17 to study at Minnesota's Augsburg College, later got a degree in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota. After a World War I stint as a lieutenant (he got his citizenship while in uniform) Sverdrup teamed up with John Ira Parcel, one of his old professors at Minnesota, to tackle big construction jobs. They built nine bridges over the Missouri River, four across...
...Augsburg aircraft plant, Messerschmitt last week was busy buying new machinery and adding to his original staff. The bustle reminded him of the wartime plane-building days. He is currently producing 40 prefabricated houses a month. "This is only the beginning," he said...
Among the most interesting of the German correspondents is a 21 year-old veteran named Leio Farber, from Augsburg in Bavaria Farber worked up the ranks through various Hitler Youth groups until he was old enough to serve in an anti-aircraft battalion. "We had many fine but dangerous adventures," he says...
Willy Messerschmitt, who built airplanes for the Nazis but claims he never really liked the Nazis, half-convinced an Augsburg denazification court of his dislike, got off with a fine of 2,000 marks as a Nazi "follower"-the fourth and lowest grade offender...
...South India's Protestants will be members of the new church. Still outside are about 100,000 Baptists (they insist on adult baptism only), 200,000 Lutherans (they demand acceptance of the Augsburg Confession), a small number of U.S. Methodists, and 200,000 members of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. But the 1,000,000-odd members of the South India Church are a leaven of unity that is already causing ecumenical stirrings in North India, and beyond. Many clergymen hopefully expect that it will eventually spread to England, Europe...