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...cost $50,000 this Christmas season for a promotion at a regional chain. The casualties last week included the edu-tainment company Knowledge Adventure, being sold to CUC International (1995 sales: $1.9 billion), and Edmark, sold to IBM for $80 million. Last summer Humongous Entertainment, which makes the popular Freddi Fish series, merged with powerhouse GT Interactive. "I think it would have been very difficult to retain our market share through the Christmas season without GTI's help," says president Shelley...
...Poldi, Freddi. Figl rose to leadership in postwar Austria. His strength of character had been developed in Dachau and the underground, and his anti-Communism appealed to the Austrians-who have not yet forgotten the first week of the Red army rapine, when women lay shivering on Vienna's steep roofs, hoping that the Russian soldiers would be too lazy to climb all the way up. He once told a Russian: "You can put me in jail if you want to; I was there for six years, and I'm not afraid to go back...
Recently he remarked: "We here in Austria can literally look across the Iron Curtain. We see how for miles behind the frontier they have razed every village. And we tell each other: Poldi, Freddi, Pepperl, we say, if this is the People's Democracy, then we are better off with what we have, even-" and he pointed to himself with a grin "-even if the government is no good...
Johannes Robin is not half scared enough. Hitler sounds crazy and dangerous, but in Robin's experience no soup is ever eaten as hot as it is cooked. What with his son Hansi a Communist, and his son Freddi a Social Democrat, the family is splitting up badly, to his sorrow; but he has his crafty reasons to feel that he has protectors among the Nazis, and in all their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other...
...efforts to help Johannes out of captivity, Hero Lanny Budd first gets a half-chance to realize that he is a brave, intelligent, responsible human being. In his effort to save Johannes' son Freddi, he is given still more dangerous opportunities, and meets them halfway. In the closing pages Lanny, tempered beyond any further possibility of being a playboy, sits in the room next to the rescued but ruined Freddi, silently crying, and realizing, of his life and of Europe: "He had traveled here and there over its surface, and everywhere had seen men diligently plowing the soil...