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...Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything. Except for Germania and Swastika, not a single U.S. town has shed its German name. All four Tokyos have survived, showing, says Author Stewart, "that the state of mind seems to be more strongly than ever that the names belong to us-to alter them would be repudiation of our own history...
...sunk by her captain's orders, a woeful sight to see, No more shall rise Germania's pride, the Admiral Graf Spee...
Most significant was the fact that German Catholics at once rallied to the daring German Protestants. "We Catholics cannot afford to sit coolly or gloatingly by." declared the Catholic organ Germania. "This anti-religious new heathenism is on a much lower level, even, than pre-Christian heathenism, which at least honored its gods and was in this sense pious...
...first showing of the German film Barbarina, Die Tansarin von Ganssonei presented under the joint auspices of the Germanic Museum and the Department of German Languages and Literatures will take place today at 4.30 o'clock in Renaissance Hall of the Germania Museum. It will he shown again tonight at 8.15 o'clock and twice tomorrow. Tickets may be obtained by students of the University and Radcliffe on presentation of their bursar's cards...
Edward Bausch, 78, carries himself erect, still golfs and bowls. He founded Rochester's Germania Bowling Club in a brewer's garden, misses few of their meetings. His golf crony for 38 years has been Eastman's President William G. Stuber, 68, who says: "Ed Bausch is the finest type of man I have ever met. His interests are broad, including science, art, music, sports and charitable work...