Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, he made them a proposition: he would make his hidden files and his staff men available to provide intelligence on the Soviet Union. The U.S. agreed, set up Gehlen and his men in a closely guarded compound outside Frankfurt. Exactly what Gehlen and his men did during the following years is still closely veiled, but a U.S. official says: "They were mostly useful in squelching various alarms; they knew a lot more about the Russians than anyone...
...Nevertheless. jazz (pronounced yahtz) has come to Germany in such a big way that the Germans are now recognized by many as Europe's most frenzied buffs. Last week the German jazz season was in full swing: thousands gathered in Berlin for the Amateur Jazz Festival, following a Frankfurt bash that made the U.S.'s Newport Festival seem like a Sunday musicale...
Hausmusik. The most popular groups at both festivals bore nostalgic. New Orleans-styled names. The winning band at Berlin was called "Papa Kos Jazzin' Babies," and among the 23 bands at Frankfurt were the Riverboat Seven of Munich, the Diissel-dorf Feetwarmers. Berlin's Spree City Stompers. They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care...
Although milder American pop music was played in Germany even during the Nazi years, jazz as such was suppressed by the Nazis as "art/remder Niggerjazz"; in Frankfurt a few musicians used to rent boats and row back into the swampland along the Rhine to hold their jam sessions. Postwar jazz in Germany was fostered by U.S. Army bands and the Armed Forces Network, and there are now about 50 professional German combos and roughly 1,000 amateur jazz bands, many of them on high school and college campuses. Other amateurs play in abandoned bomb shelters or in the "jazz-houses...
...policemen on one side, six East German policemen on the other. Streetcars and buses come to abrupt stops, and only subways and elevated trains run unhampered throughout the city. If a boy in West Berlin wants to phone a girl in East Berlin, the call must be routed via Frankfurt (West Germany) and Leipzig-a distance of more than 500 miles to make a phone ring in the next block. There are no country weekends for West Berliners, since the countryside is Communist. The most popular and convenient vacation spot is nearby Lake Wannsee. It is usually as jammed...