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Bombardiers' Weather. Early in the week huge formations of American heavy bombers-700 in all-trundled up from dozens of English airbases into the morning sunlight. Their main objectives: three of Germany's key aircraft assembly plants, at Oschersleben, Brunswick, Halberstadt, 400 miles from Britain's shores...
Short, crop-haired, 42-year-old Martin Bormann was a schoolboy bully in Halberstadt near the Harz Mountains. After World War I he studied agriculture in Mecklenburg, where he joined a murderous anti-Republican gang whose pastime was beating workmen as they left their beer halls. This connection led him into the German Workers Party, predecessor of the Nazis...
Miss Mayer is not the only famed fencer who comes from Offenbach. Like Erskrath de Bary, Hans & Julius Thomson, H. Halberstadt, Stephanie Stern and many another, she was taught by Offenbach's famed professional, Arturo Gazzerra. In 1924, at 13. she was fencing champion of Germany. In 1928 she won the individual championship at the Olympics. In 1932, Helene Mayer visited the U. S. with the German Olympic team, stayed on as an exchange student at Scripps College...
Other fencers from Offenbach: Erskrath de Bary (1906 Olympic competitor); Edwin Casimir, who was on the champion Olympic sabre team in 1906 and who represented his country with Miss Mayer in 1932; Hans & Julius Thomson and H. Halberstadt (1928 Olympic team members) ; Stephanie Stern, German woman foils champion in 1926, U. S. National champion in 1927.-ED. Hon. Mention Sirs: ... I cannot resist a word of praise for the Hearst biographical sketch in the May i issue of TIME...
...close of the War the City Fathers of Halberstadt (Prussia) prudently changed the name of one of their chief thoroughfares from Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse to Richard Wagnerstrasse. By way of added diplomacy they altered Hohenzollernstrasse to Friedenstrasse (Peace Street). Last week these alterations were swept away and the original names restored, a result of the German Fascist movement which has gained considerable headway of late...