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...Fussy Frau Albert Einstein manages her fuzzy-crowned husband much as a hen does a bewildered chick. Worrying lately about his health, she wished to have him examined, was able to only by a trick: she got a doctor to show Dr. Einstein a sphygmomanometer. Inquisitive, he fiddled with it to see how it worked, had his blood pressure counted before he knew it. Examination showed Dr. Einstein no more unhealthy than the average sedentary person. But last fortnight, aboard the S. S. Westernland en route to the U. S., he felt unwell, was obliged to keep to his cabin...
Swastika banners hung from Frau Winifred Wagner's Villa Wahnfried, drooped over the street as Chancellor Hitler drove through cheering Fascist crowds. Scowling Brown Shirts, rifle at shoulder, guarded the entrance of the refurbished Festspielhaus. It was Nazi Day at Bayreuth. Despite Hitler's prohibition of demonstrations "not pertaining to Wagner's immortal music," Karl Elmendorff's flat, insipid conducting of Die Meistersinger could not conceal the fact that Nazi Germany was again parading its national resurgence. Most foreign Wagnerites, regarding the Festival as an act of homage, remained away...
Reports that Hitler was angered by the inclusion of Jews in the Festival company, invited by Frau Wagner, were dispelled by the presence of her son Wieland in Hitler's box, announcement that he would remain to hear Richard Strauss conduct Parsifal and Elmendorff's directing of the Ring cycle. Frau Wagner, to whom the Chancellor has often been rumored engaged, was busy backstage during the performance, did not join his party...
...Prominent Nazis like Dr. Goebbels have of course no worries about whether their capital is schaffendes or raffendes. They can do no wrong. "The Doctor" lives in markedly sumptuous style with his beauteous wife, their baby daughter, and her little son by a previous marriage. When enemies charged that Frau Goebbels is distantly descended from a Jewish family named Friedlander, "The Doctor" produced no evidence but flew into a towering, effective rage. "Let whosoever desires to do so look upon my wife!" he challenged. "Let them convince themselves with their own eyes of her non-Jewish origin!" "WE DEMAND!" Unable...
...Ringstrasse by mounted police swinging their sabres. A huge bomb tore out the inside of a department store. Lives of dozens of people were saved when a 30-lb. bomb failed to explode in a cafe in Vienna's Jewish quarter, the Leopoldstadt. Not so lucky was Frau Futterweit. Standing in the doorway of her little jewelry shop, an old silk stocking stuffed with newspapers and a hand grenade was flung at her from a passing car. Frau Futterweit tried to throw it back. It burst in her hands, killing her instantly. Eight passersby were wounded, one died...