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Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Paul Lukas in Battleship Bismarck...
...desperately short of housing, commissioned the Cologne-Düsseldorf Steamship Co. to tie up a big river liner near the city. The line told Bonn that the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm would be there. Himmel! croaked the Bonn officials, the name might cause criticism. Replied the ship line: "S.S. Bismarck coming." That was worse. Bonn wired: "Send Kaiser Wilhelm, but hide name with sign reading 'Hotel Ship...
...Cologne's university, promoted the revival of an annual trade fair, set up a model settlement for workers. He had a natural flair for politics. "When I sat in the city hall in Cologne," Adenauer once said, "I used to think to myself: the Roman Empire went down, Bismarck's Prussian dream collapsed and now Kaiser Wilhelm's Reich has been destroyed. But this old city of Cologne lives on. It has outlasted them all, and it is worth all one's energies to protect and cherish...
Matsumoto (changing the subject): "Germans recently voted Bismarck the greatest man in history. That shows Germany under American occupation is far from being democratized...
...thing Author Grenfell makes painfully plain: the Bismarck was a huskier fighting ship than anything Britain had built. To bring her down had taken eight battleships and battle cruisers, two aircraft carriers, four heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, 21 destroyers, six submarines and numerous shore-based aircraft. Captain Grenfell's account of The Bismarck Episode seemingly leaves the British Admiralty with some explaining to do about the quality of its ship construction and tactics. And while it is highly unlikely that war vessels of the traditional battleship type will ever again be built-at least...