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...only survivor of Hitler's immediate family. Fraülein Wolf has long hoped for a hunk of Hitler's great fortune, but her prospects of getting even a pfennig of it have dimmed to the vanishing point. Facing her eviction stoically, Paula indulged in some fond reminiscences of her late big brother: "He was kind to me when father died. He took me to my first opera-Lohengrin. But he made me stick to my studies. When we were children, he would tell me that if anyone was unkind to me he would protect...
...churches of mankind, to the leaders of religion here and in the United States, that they are guilty of blasphemy! They describe the Russians as a nation of God-haters, as a nation of atheists. Well, comrades, strip from your mind all the delusions you are fond of harboring ... It is from the God-haters that the proposal [to ban H-bombs] has come, and it is by the God-lovers that the proposal has been rejected! Is there any Christian minister who has a reply...
...Mouth. Listeners are fond of giving performers names that characterize them, and fans think nothing of walking 100 miles or so to see what the voice looks like. One listener recently walked all the way from the interior of the Congo to see Alick Nkata, a young CABS singer. Having stayed three weeks as a house guest, the man left, saying, "Now I can tell my village that I alone have seen Big Mouth." One announcer is known as Umfumfumfu (Man WTho Never Gets Tired of Talking). Another is called Maker of Jokes That Sometimes Are Funny...
What has given News of the World a fond place in every second British home is a simple formula: deadpan reporting of crime, from adultery to zooerastry, in almost all the exhaustive (and libel-proof) detail of the court transcript. "We are not a sensational paper," says the paper's creed. " 'Sensation' means making a lot out of nothing. We give facts, simply present all the news." Thus, in columns rife with rape, the paper never descends to such pseudo-glamorous tabloid cliches as "voluptuous" or "comely" to describe a victim; it simply tells the reader...
...elected chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp., taking over from his 82-year-old father, IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., who remains as board chairman. Young Tom Watson, "Mr. THINK Jr." (TIME, March 28,1955), will continue as IBM president. A supersalesman who is fond of saying that he takes "real pride in being a great man's son." Tom Jr. has been with IBM since he graduated from Brown University in 1937. As chief executive officer, Tom Jr. will officially become top boss, although unofficially he has been running IBM since taking over as president...