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Some of them plainly belonged on the back pages among the shipping and travel notes. At LaGuardia airport, an American Overseas Airlines transport unloaded 30 dogs from Frankfurt, Germany and 97 reptiles from London, including twelve adders, three asps, four viperine snakes, 50 slowworms and two sandboas. On another plane from the Philippines, en route to The Bronx Zoo, came eleven tree shrews, three monkey-eating eagles, 14 giant cloud rats and 30 tarsiers. The tarsier (TIME, March 3), an insect-eating cousin of the monkey, is smaller than a squirrel, weighs only half a pound, has long fingers tipped...
Party-Liners. In a three-room flat in Höchst, outside Frankfurt, sits Peter Fischer, a tubby, earnest little man who spent a lifetime in the parties of the working class-first the Social Democrats, then the Communists. He helped form the Frankfurt city government when the Nazis fled...
...evidence was a $500,000 display of jewels looted from the House of Hesse's Kronberg Castle (TIME, June 17, 1946). In Frankfurt last week an eight-member Army court pronounced sentence on Colonel Jack W. Durant for his part in the crime. The sentence: 15 years at hard labor, dismissal from the service. Already serving prison terms for the same offense are Durant's ex-WAC captain wife, Kathleen (five years); and Major David F. Watson (three years...
White-haired Princess Hermine, 59, widow of Kaiser Wilhelm II, did some reminiscing. "The Kaiser," she recalled, "was a wonderful man . . . very sad about the [second] war, and detested and distrusted Hitler." She herself was living in Frankfurt an der Oder in the Russian zone. She had "lost everything" except two tables and a chair, but she is still addressed by close friends as "Your Majesty...
Eugene O'Neill scored a triumph the hard way, in Frankfurt, Germany. His Mourning Becomes Electra, once banned by the Nazis, was played there without an intermission. It took 5½ hours, got 15 curtain calls...