Word: bremerhaven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kaempfert cultivated his taste for "foreign music" when he led a sextet in a U.S. Army officers' club in Bremerhaven. By cribbing from the jukebox, he learned all the popular American songs, soon developed a skill for arranging and composing foxtrotting tunes in the big-band idiom. Since his "music that does not disturb," as he calls it, is geared for U.S. audiences, he is virtually unknown in his own country. But Kaempfert does not care; last year he grossed $950,000. Strangers ought to make 'him a millionaire. "Maybe then," says his wife, "they will pay attention...
SHIP OF FOOLS. This flashy popular melodrama by Producer-Director Stanley Kramer out of Novelist Katherine Anne Porter's mordant allegory concerns a German vessel bound from Veracruz to Bremerhaven during the early 1930s. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they have to spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner provide fast company for the long haul...
Ship of Fools. In her mordant 1962 bestseller, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter unsparingly scrutinized what she described as "the ship of this world on its voyage to eternity." Her passengers were pimps, bigots, weaklings and other morally rumpled types, booked from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on the German vessel Vera during the early 1930s. Skirting the allegorical deeps, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer and Scenarist Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) have turned Ship into just another showboat-a flashy popular melodrama, acted with everyman-for-himself urgency by a troupe of scintillating international stars...
...example: The America touches Cobh, Le Havre, Southhampton, and then overnight in Bremerhaven. The first time I shipped, I drove an elevator on the America, and when we hit Le Havre I was off with the first. It was three A.M. We had five hours before sailing. Everyone stormed into town, heading for Suzanne's, the combination bar and whore-house en face de la gare. Down the block is its rival, the Algiers Bar, open to Algerians only. The French government rules all such places closed until five in the morning, but the metal slats were kept down, while...
France, then sloped east by northeast on a routine, 2½hour "navigational training mission." The flight plan called for the 700-m.p.h., twin-jet bomber to swing over Germany's beautiful Mosel Valley to Hahn airbase, then bank north to Bremerhaven before returning with zigzags and altitude changes to Hahn and home. The flight plan should have brought the plane and its three-man crew no closer to the border than 70 miles. But somewhere between Hahn and Bremerhaven somebody slipped. According to one U.S. Air Force official last week: "They were about 120 miles off course...