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...Died. Friedrich Schorr, 64, famed Wagnerian baritone of the Metropolitan Opera (1923-43); of cancer; in Farmington, Conn. Hungarian-born son of a Jewish cantor, he first studied law in Vienna eventually joined a barnstorming Wagnerian troupe, and after one season in the U.S., was signed up by the Met. Best-known for his memorable Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and Wotan in Die Walüre, Baritone Schorr shut himself up for hours before singing a new role, to master every histrionic detail...
Ulbricht took up Soviet citizenship, helped organize German P.W.s and captured officers (among them, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus) into the pro-Communist shock corps that was supposed to go home and paint Germany Red after V-day. The propaganda barrage laid down on the encircled Wehrmacht armies at Stalingrad was written by Ulbricht and delivered in his guttural German over front-line loudspeakers. In Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Red princelings from all over Europe, e.g., Tito, Togliatti, Thorez, he shared quarters in the Lux Hotel with a plain, buxom German émigree named Lotte...
...cars wheeled to face the crowd. Soldiers somberly pointed machine guns above the heads of the marchers. Six mobile antiaircraft trucks twisted through the crowd, nose to tail, like a team of prodding sheep dogs, to press the movement past and on to other places. But at Leipziger and Friedrich Strasse, where the chief government buildings stood, the mob's suppressed feelings broke out. Anger scudded in like a rain cloud. "Freedom!" they chanted. "Freedom!" "We demand the overthrow of the government." "We want the overthrow of Ulbricht...
Millionaire Friedrich Flick, onetime financier of the SS, is a German coal baron whom the allies jailed (1945-50) for using slave labor in his farflung mines. Two-thirds of Flick's holdings were grabbed by the Communist government of Eastern Germany; the rest were ordered broken up by U.S. and British trustbusters. Flick agreed to sell his majority (60%) interest in the Harpener Bergbau, and looked around for a German customer. He found none: German businessmen, strapped for cash, need all their ready capital to build new factories...
...Mike. Hit of last week's industrial fair at Hannover, Germany, was a three-dimensional projection microscope designed by Dr. Friedrich Fehse of Hamburg. It projected repulsive little creatures (protozoa, bacilli, etc.) on a three-foot screen and enlarged them to the size of rabbits. Observers wearing polarized glasses got the shock of their lives. The blown-up varmints appeared to be swimming toward them, even reaching for them...