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...days later, his wife & children joined him. Frau Knoblauch brought a letter mailed to Willy by the East German Prime Minister himself. "May your example," it said, "lead ever broader circles of our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Hero A.W.O.L | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...Place to Live In. During the war, SSman Sirsch was captured by the Russians, and his wife cared for little Ivan. At war's end, expelled from her home in the Sudetenland, Frau Sirsch took the boy to West Germany, where she made a precarious living as a seamstress. In 1949 Sirsch was released from his Russian P.W. camp, took up his old trade of house painting and built a new home. Herr and Frau Sirsch and little Ivan seemed happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Two Mothers | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...audience seemed only mildly impressed, the applause was almost perfunctory. True, the music had its passages of Strauss lyricism, and Conductor Clemens Krauss made the most of them. But the score bore little resemblance to the lilting Rosenkavalier or the passionate Salome: it was closer to the allegorical Frau ohne Schatten or Die Aegyptische Helena of the composer's later years, and it sometimes made unreasonable vocal and emotional demands on the singers. Its story, a retelling of how Jupiter wooed the nymph Danae, was a hodgepodge of myth and fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strauss's Last Premiere | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...Died. Frau Elly Heuss-Knapp, 71, wife of Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Federal Republic; after long illness; in Bonn. The daughter of Economist George Knapp, she founded the first evening school for women in Strasbourg when she was only 19. When the Nazis burned her husband's books and banned him from teaching in Berlin, Frau Heuss-Knapp supported the family by writing jingles for soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...detachment swung into the village, and built a stout wooden fence, ten feet high, clear through the main street. Miller Wurziger's grain mill stood in the way, so the Vopos tore it down. Wurziger and his son jumped from an upstairs window of their house and dragged Frau Wurziger to safely through the pig sty. Of Mödlareuth's 18 East zone families, six have fled to the West, four "political unreliables" have been dragged farther East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Eleventh Meridian | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

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