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...ruins of East Berlin to the law offices of one Dr. Hans Kemritz. Each came in answer to an innocent-sounding summons; but when they got there, they were grabbed by the Russians. Four later died in Red concentration camps. One was an unsavory character named Hans-Juergen von Hake, whom the Danes might have hanged for war crimes, had the Russians not gotten him first...
Square Holes. Lockheed Aircraft employs 600 handicapped workers (18 have Seeing Eye dogs) all at the same pay as other workers. R. A. Von Hake, vice president in charge of manufacturing, says they are "hard-hitting, dependable and capable. They seem determined to compete with or excel the physically normal workers and they put in extra effort." Two of Lockheed's blind workers proved inventive: Ted Bushnell, who runs a parts numbering machine, invented a foot pedal which upped the machine's production 50%. James Garfield devised an adjustment knob and a turn-on switch for his burring...
...week before, a busy little Bucknell team had trounced Penn State; Penn had melted the famed "Iron Men"* from brown. There could be little doubt of a victory for Penn, which was odd because Hake, Monk, Olexy, the Brothers Scull, Wascolonis, etc. of Penn were worthless before Delph, Pannaccion, Roepke, Hamas, etc. of Penn State. Score...
...lands in his lap. They marry and live in Gluten, N. Y. Divorce ensues. Queen Marie sings "Dat watahmelyon hangin' on de vine." He marries a Swiss called Geezle. He reforms the theatre by undressing the audience. In the last chapter, not without justice, he dies fishing for hake, suggesting posthumously and provocatively that it was stomach hake...
...Stomach Hake" "Even to this day," confesses Funnyman Lardner,* "the first week in March is set aside in Niles [Mich.] as 'Have a Baby Week.'" He came in there like a lion one March "before they had horses and boats and when you wanted to go from one town to another, you had to take a train." Graduates of the Lytton Strachey school of informal biography may suspect Mr. Lardner of shoving fun at their alma mater, the way he takes liberties with prominent names and dates in trying to solve the enigma of himself in an intimate...