Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back home in Hamburg, undaunted, the Herr Doktor celebrated his 75th birthday and announced that he was considering an invitation from Egypt's government to survey that country's economy. When a newspaperman asked about his Indonesia report, he offered to show it to him -for a fee. "I've got to build a new existence," he said, beaming confidently...
...dense fog hung low as the Isbrandtsen Company's 6,711-ton freighter Flying Enterprise moved away from her pier in Hamburg; her Danish-born master, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, 37, was obliged to conn her down the harbor by radar. There was nasty weather outside, and she creaked and complained as she rolled down past Dover and through the English Channel, heavy with a cargo of coffee beans, antique furniture, automobiles, U.S. mail and Rotterdam pig iron...
Resigned to misery, he came out 18 months later, determined to give his wife a divorce. But first, said the lawyers, he must be officially brought to life again. They dug up old records. They pored over the past. What was this? An unserved sentence for pants-stealing? A Hamburg court investigated, and sentenced Schleicher to five months' imprisonment for his forgotten crime. Schleicher appealed. A higher court cut the sentence to one month. Schleicher threw himself into a Hamburg pond, determined to end it all. Even at this he failed. A passing couple saw him and dragged...
Last week the Hamburg city council took pity on Private Schleicher, and passed a special legislative act granting him full pardon for everything. But bitterness had entered the sack's sad soul. "I'm going to spend my life," he swore, "fighting the stupid red tape which is entangling every German...
Bird Lover. In Hamburg, Iowa, someone chopped a hole in the bottom of each of 16 duck hunters' boats...