Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students of the war-ravaged high school on Hamburg's grey Thedestrasse, the prospect of ever getting a proper place to play seemed just about hopeless. Then, one day in 1950, Teacher Walter Pareik spotted an ad in a local paper: a certain farmer was offering to pay 2.20 Deutsche Marks (52?) for no Ibs. of potato peels for hog feed. If one farmer was willing to spend that kind of money, reasoned Teacher Pareik, why not others? Perhaps the Thedestrasse high school should go into business...
German travelers hurrying through Frankfurt's bustling Rhein-Main airport stopped in surprise last week as the loudspeaker boomed: "Lufthansa flight from Hamburg to Munich has just arrived." Then most of them rushed to the big waiting-room window and looked out onto the field. There a light-blue Lufthansa Convair, with the familiar eagle painted on its nose, taxied in, completing the first scheduled test run for the line. Germany had her wings back...
Objection from France. But Lufthansa is not discouraged. Last year 26 international airlines crisscrossed Germany for a gross of 225 million DM ($53.6 million). In December alone, they carried 114,000 passengers (25% German). Lufthansa has already set up shop in Europe's largest, most modern hangar, in Hamburg, hired 700 employees, including a covey of trim stewardesses. Its bosses, moreover, are no novices in the harshly competitive airline business, but old hands. Hans M. Bongers, Lufthansa's chief, ran the line's prewar business department; Technical Director Gerhard Höltje is another veteran...
...academic average of men in the big sports is not below that of the College. One man on last year's varsity crew graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and is now at Cambridge working for a degree in History. Last year's captain is one the Conant Scholarship at Hamburg, the captain before is working on geo-physics at Cambridge. During the last four from the crew have gone to Harvard Medical School. Every sport has similar men. How can one call this "hardly contributing intellectually" to the College? Evidently some scholars fell there is a great value in athletics...
Happy Birthday. As snow sifted down and rain froze into sleet, no driver seemed to enjoy the cross-country competition more than Sheila. Just as she left Munich, word was passed that it was her 33rd birthday, and for the next two days Rally officials celebrated. At the Hamburg control point, Germans rose to a man and broke into a gutteral version of "Happy Birthday to You." On the Dutch border, smiling customs guards waved her steel-grey Sunbeam across the frontier. All along the way well-wishers gave her flowers, which she tossed into the rear seat where...