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...collector (TIME, May 29, 1964). Finally the price leveled at $2,175,000. Four times Christie's auctioneer, I. O. Chance, repeated the bid; then he brought down his hammer, announced: "Sold to Marlborough Fine Arts." Applause scattered across the room for what seemed to be the Rem brandt's retention by the British. Then it abruptly stopped...
Things did not go half badly. After lunch and a look at the Wall with Mayor Willy Brandt in Berlin, Wilson went on to Bonn, where he sat down with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard for an informal dinner that went on until midnight. Out of it came 1) an assurance that Erhard would look into the matter of Buying British, and 2) a book entitled A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne-a gift from Ludwig to Harold...
...troubles, Erhard's personal popularity and deserved reputation as the father of German prosperity remain immense. Regardless of party standing, the polls still favor Erhard as Chancellor over Socialist Leader Willy Brandt. A vigorous mayor of West Berlin, Brandt simply lacks the stature of a national leader, a fact that the Karlsruhe convention recognized when, in drawing up its election program, it emphasized the party more than the man. The convention also appointed a "shadow Cabinet" of able technicians to show the electorate that the Socialists have more to offer than just Brandt...
Even with Der Dicke's face on the posters, the voters gave Willy Brandt's rival Social Democrats an overall gain of nearly 5%. In West Germany's populous industrial Rhine River heartland, the Socialists won absolute majorities in 24 of the 38 major cities-including Konrad Adenauer's traditionally safe bastion of Cologne...
...Aachen, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt unveiled a memorial to European unity with the plea that "the dead of the nations of Europe shall not have passed into nothingness." Free Democratic Party Leader Erich Mende in a broadcast beamed into East Germany reminded his listeners that it was Stalin's pact with Hitler a week earlier that had made the rape of Poland possible...