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Married. Mrs. Mona Harrison Williams, 57, perennially "best dressed" widow of Public Utilitycoon Harrison Williams, who left her the bulk of his estimated $12 million fortune when he died 14 months ago, aged 80; and Count Albert Edward Bismarck, 51, interior decorator and grandson of Prince Otto von Bismarck, first chancellor of the German Empire; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Edgewater...
...knowledge of U.S. scientists. In a test of 15 Ph.D. candidates, Botanist Harry Fuller of the University of Illinois found that only a third of the students could give a satisfactory identification of the Reformation and Voltaire; only half knew much about Plato; and only four could properly identify Bismarck. Out of the 15, ten had never even heard of the Medicis, and seven knew nothing whatever about the Magna Carta...
GERMANY'S Blohm & Voss, the country's biggest shipbuilder (the 45,000-ton battleship Bismarck), is back in business for the first time since World War II, but on a smaller scale. The shipyard has just received permission from the allies to build light coastal vessels...
...Germany's economic renaissance [TIME, Feb. 15], food for thought for all of us. History is replete with such examples. After the War of 1870, Germany saddled France with a gold indemnity which, it was estimated, would take a full generation to pay. By that time, thought Bismarck, the French would be "Germanicized" . . . And German troops were stationed throughout France until it should be paid. So hated were the German garrisons, that the French went to work with a will−exports flowed out, gold flowed in, and within three years the indemnity had been paid . . . But, the spirit...
What a perfect brainwashing job you performed in the German "miracle." First Dr. Adenauer as Man of the Year, now the master race of the century . . . From Frederick the Great to Scharnhorst to Bismarck the Germans were always efficient conquerors and killers. Now they appear as conquering businessmen...