Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started off with 6,000 copies of our Atlantic Overseas Edition, which is printed in Paris for European distribution only and is identical with TIME's U.S. edition in all respects except advertising. Of these, 3,000 went to Greater Berlin, and another 3,000 to the Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Greater Hesse area. The price was two marks (about 80 U.S. cents) a copy...
After a fruitless questioning, U.S. Army Intelligence Chief Brigadier General Edwin L. Sibert, whose strong-arm raiding squads have manhandled many a German Communist inside the U.S. zone, took over the Russian prisoners. For 34 days they were held near Frankfurt, interrogated twice daily. The Russians later said that they were "accused impudently but without success of espionage." To General Kotikov, the Russian commandant in Berlin, the U.S. commander, Major General Frank A. Keating, denied any knowledge of the missing Russians. Kotikov decided to bring a little pressure...
Married. Colonel Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr., 49, dapper ex-playboy, prewar U.S. Ambassador to Poland, now Allied contact officer at U.S. headquarters in Europe; and Margaret Atkinson Loughborough, 32, a Canadian and former UNRRA worker; both for the third time; in Frankfurt, Germany...
Last week in the newly opened American Library at Frankfurt, whose shelves are loaded with periodicals from the U.S., earnest young Germans were deep in the study of U.S. economics, politics, geography and literature. None was more rapt in concentration than a thin, hungry-looking youth bending over a slick, glossy magazine in the corner. "I came here," he explained, "looking for a geographical magazine, but I picked up this one. I couldn't resist the temptation...
...contract for the first U.S. appearance of Eva Prchlikova, a sensational young Czech soprano. An Army captain in Frankfurt who had heard her sing told Krueger about her, arranged a quick audition in an empty Army mess hall. She sang for two hours, scorned warm-up and launched confidently into the "Queen of the Night," Mozart's test-piece from The Magic Flute.* Krueger signed her on the spot...