Word: bierstuben
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...automobile and special trains, 250,000 Germans originally from Silesia poured into Cologne last week. Jamming open-air restaurants and Bierstuben, they swapped stories with old friends over Rhenish beer and schnapps beneath banners proclaiming "For Silesia." The occasion was the regular reunion of Germans expelled from Communist Poland after World War II. During a mammoth rally at fairgrounds on the banks of the Rhine, the gemütlich scene suddenly turned into a riot; stirred up by a rabble-rousing politician, the crowd nearly mobbed a German TV reporter who had suggested that Poland is doing well...
...bouquet on a secretary's desk, that the rites of spring were most warmly celebrated. In Manhattan, the center stripe down Fifth Avenue turned leprechaun green (as it always does in spring), and 120,000 people marched in honor of an ancient Irish saint. In German Bierstuben, Milwaukee toasted spring with the first malty bock of the season. Philadelphians filled the benches of Rittenhouse Square, turning their pale faces upward to greet the warming sun. And Washington was in an April mood as the first boisterous busloads of visiting students arrived on spring vacation...
...Bloody Noses. In West Berlin Bierstuben, the man most credited with boosting the morale of West Berliners is the hero of the 1948 airlift, Special Presidential Envoy Lucius D. Clay, 64, who has become the image of a calm and determined U.S. in Berlin. He has toured East Berlin, passed through the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint, examined the Wall with minute care. He helicoptered to Steinstücken, a little enclave just over the West Berlin border that nevertheless belongs to the U.S. sector. Everywhere West Berliners cheer him. All this is calculated to show that the U.S. will not be pushed...
Virtually all the comfortable old neighborhood Bierstuben have been forced out of business. Today the German worker must take his evening glass of beer at the big, bleak, state-run HO halls, where portraits of Lenin and old Spitzbart (pointed beard, i.e., Ulbricht) look down mockingly from the walls...
...Detroit, cash-heavy war workers are making a big splash, but mostly in noisy, smoky, gaudy places which look like overgrown Bierstuben. At the big Bowery Club trumpet-mouthed Martha Raye draws over 1,200 customers nightly to break house records. Almost all Detroit nightclub customers are factory workers; small individual checks are bolstered by a door charge. At the uppity Club Royale executives are coming back after months when they were too busy on war work to gallivant. Burlesque strippers disrobe before ever-growing audiences. Only complaint of the operators: kitchen help and waiters are hard to find...