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Heuss's wife became a successful advertising woman, was able to support them when the Nazis froze Heuss out of teaching jobs. Now, grey-haired and grandmotherly, she will have to be the mistress of the ugly, boxlike presidential mansion at Bad Godesberg. Said Heuss of this German White House: "I can always draw up before the main entrance in my presidential Mercedes, leave by the kitchen, and then drive back to my furnished room in Bonn in my own little...
...clock one morning Russian soldiers knocked at the door, and told me we had one hour to pack our things and leave. They took us to Pinsk and loaded us into boxcars-60 to a car." As the slow train moved through the Russian winter, five babies froze to death. Their mothers pushed them out into the snow...
...stage, with only a bare black backdrop for scenery, she marched to a lectern and began to narrate: "Behold Faust in his cell . . ." After a few more words in Poet Spender's potpourri of prose and poetry, recapping Faust's learning in "alchemy, and, alas, theology," she froze into a catatonic stare, and Faust, followed by Mephistopheles (Bass Arthur Newman) came on to sing (excellently). By the time the audience rushed out for air at intermission, they had seen and heard Maggie, two pianos and four singers (Faust, Mephistopheles, Marguerite, Valéntin) telescope the first three acts...
...wanted to cry: 'But I loved your country! I wanted to write, to explain it to the world!' The words froze. He wouldn't permit them, nor would he understand them." The commissar rose to pronounce judgment: Journalist Strong was to be expelled for spying. "I tried once more to protest that I wasn't a spy ... He said, 'Dismissed,' very curtly, and I went...
...break came with 43 seconds to play: a free throw for the Dons. It looped through. The Dons froze the ball, iced the 1949 National Invitation Championship, 48-47. Most valuable player of the tournament (picked by N.I.T. judges): San Francisco's Lofgran...