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...desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...
...piano prodigy who was guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony at eight. Sammy, 35, was brought up on the sidewalks of New York, set a hooky record at Seward Park High School"which still stands." He was already a successful lyricist at 28 (Shoe Shine Boy, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon) when he and Jule teamed up in Hollywood...
...gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances...
When Patty was eleven the sisters got in smalltime vaudeville, stayed there until an agent named Lou Levy heard them, taught them a bouncy, Bronxy song. Bei Mir Bist Du Schön. The sisters recorded it for Decca, clicked at once. Since then Manager Levy has picked all their songs, sweet ones as well as cute ones like Beer Barrel Polka, I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, and Well All Right...
...week more than 300 bearded Amish and Mennonite farmers, Pennsylvania scholars and historians, guests from as far away as Manhattan thronged the Landis farm to attend the formal opening of the Landis Valley Museum. Awed neighbors in flat hats and black bonnets greeted each other in Pennsylvania Dutch ("Wie bist du Heit?"-"How are you today...