Word: bischoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, August Bischoff, admitting his hangover, reported to police that he couldn't remember which of St. Louis' four rivers he had driven his car into...
...Bischoff, curator of the Berlin University zoological museum, marched into Father Schmitz's cloister and demanded to see the collection. Father Schmitz showed him the phorid flies (the ants had been sent to Maastricht's natural history museum for safekeeping). Snapped Professor Dr. Bischoff: "From today on all this belongs to me. And I want the Wasmann ants, too." "Give Up." This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht. He helped patriotic Dutch formicophiles hide the ant collection in the cellar of the Town Hall. But Professor...
...Bischoff, only temporarily foiled, soon returned from Berlin, this time with a tough SS trooper and a formal paper demanding the surrender of the ants. The Professor announced that, since Father Wasmann was born in the Tyrol, the ants were German property. The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory. He appealed to the quisling Minister of Fine Arts at The Hague. Said the Minister: "Give up the ants." So the Professor carried them off to Berlin, after ostentatiously signing a receipt...
Interviewing prospective applicants for the "B" course in meterology, Ralph Bischoff, civilian adviser to schools, will be in Cambridge tomorrow and Wednesday, and will see men in Little...
...Bischoff will not accept applications at that time, but will consult with and give advice to interested men. Although "B" men in particular agree needed, students eligible for the "C" course may also be taken. He will seem men from 2 to 5 o'clock on Tuesday and 1 to 5 o'clock on Wednesday...