Word: dusseldorfers
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Wait Greeley, captain of the 1952-52 Crimson hockey team, was named yesterday to the 15-man United States squad which will compete in the 1955 World Amateur championships to be held at Dusseldorf, Germany, Greeley was a center at Harvard...
...great cities of Germany are dead. When you first see Cologne, you think that no other city could be smashed into such rubble and crazy, fire-blackened walls. When you see Dusseldorf, you decide that it must be the worst; but Essen changes your mind, until you see Nurnberg. Then you know that they have all been so horribly shattered by air power that the question of whether one has a few more houses blasted than another is inconsequential...
...Dusseldorf they talk of rebuilding the entire city in five years. First, they will fix up the Opera House and the theaters so that the dreadful monotony will be relieved. Then they will rebuild the least damaged apartments, finally the houses...
...divided Germany into four parts, under four occupation governments: Russia in Berlin and the East (less the Silesian and East Prussian areas to be given to the Soviet Union's new Poland) ; the U.S. in Bavaria, in the South; Britain in a central and western area including Leipzig, Dusseldorf, and the ports of Bremen and Hamburg on the strategic North Sea coastline ; France in the Rhineland (all of the areas were still to be defined exactly...
...classic victory, one of history's greatest. By this week it had taken his main forces into the heart of Germany for the fatal thrusts. But the measure of the victory was back in the Ruhr basin. There last week the last cohesive resistance died; Dusseldorf fell. The bag of prisoners was astonishing: more than 317,000. There was no complete count of the enemy dead; the total would probably be more than 25.000. Thus the Ruhr had yielded a greater harvest of annihilation than the Russians' tide-turning triumph at Stalingrad, with its total...