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...none too eager to carry home to stockholders the bad news of earnings for the first half of 1946. But last week, as third-quarter reports came out, there was many a yelp of joy. There were still some failures; but there were also a surprisingly large number of "Es" for excellent...
Sedists know that this time, as Berlin slang puts it, "Es geht um die Wurst" ("The sausage is at stake," meaning: this is it)..The elections (at which Berliners will choose 130 city councillors and 805 district assemblymen) are Germany's first to be supervised jointly by all four occupying powers. This means that, for once, SED will have to compete honestly with its rival parties (the Liberals, Christian Democrats and Social Democrats). Even without joint central control, in Russian zone elections last month SED polled only a bare 52% majority...
Long before sunrise, the people of Paris started their pilgrimage. By daybreak, they had become a solid grey mass covering the Champs Elysées and the Place de la Concorde, solemnly waiting to pay homage to the American emissary. When finally they spied his carriage, behind its glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray...
...newspaper editor with iron nerves, he was unlikely to let the Communists push him around. To illustrate the Stransky calm, friends tell how he took the fall of Paris in 1940. During the mad scramble of flight, he went for a quiet stroll along the Champs-Elysées, where he ran into the well-known Czech pianist, Rudolf Firkusny. Stransky said he had wanted to ask Firkusny's advice on a problem that had been on his mind for a long time. Was it too late in life for him to learn to play the piano? And where...
Five U.S. Army trucks, manned by unguarded German P.W.s, rumbled along Paris' Champs Elysées. Watching the procession amid indifferent French boulevardiers, a U.S. captain growled: "It's got so the American Army in France is practically run by Heinie prisoners...