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...night of St. Valentine's Day, 1944, Gestapo agents marched into the village of La Tronche, near Grenoble, France, and arrested two Jewish refugees from Austria, Dr. Fritz Finaly and his wife Annie. The Finalys were never seen again. They left two children behind them, Robert, 3, and Gerald...
Seven years after war's end, Europe's most thoroughly defeated nation was fast becoming the strongest. Last week, submitting his 1953 budget to the Bundestag, West German Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer recited these amazing facts...
...former lawyer dropped a footnote on Fritz Kuhn, the Gauleiter of the German-American Bund, who was kicked out of the U.S. in 1945 after 17 years' residence: unmourned, unknown and broke, Kuhn died Nov. 14, 1951, of a heart attack, in a Munich hospital...
Minutes later, the four-man Swiss sled, a red-nosed quarter-ton of steel, wire and canvas, started its practice run. Brakeman Fritz Stöckli gave a final shove, then hopped on behind his white-sweatered crew: Driver Endrich, Crewmen Aby Gartmann and René Heiland. Runners rattling on the icy course, the sled hit a 50 m.p.h. clip as Endrich steered through the tricky "labyrinth"-a series of 16 intricate curves. Pounding into the Bavarian Curve, a 180° turn with a 15-foot sheer wall of ice where Sweden's Rudolph Odenrich was killed two years...
...benefit from the two-platoon game, were in favor of the change. Said Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson: "It's in the best interests of the game. The two-platoon system has a tendency to make big teams bigger and little teams weaker." Colorado Mines' Coach Fritz Brennecke saw other benefits: "It will reduce the pressure on recruiting and finances . . . Everyone will have to know how to block and tackle...