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Chrys was born in Germany and started show business at the age of five, helping her father in the family juggling act. When he fell and broke his back two years ago in Hamburg, the circus owner asked her to go on in her father's place. Up she went, hair first, three balls dancing from her hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circuses: Ouch! | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...with which Tass had wound up its transmission of a Khrushchev speech. According to this theory, Kuba misread it as KHRUSHCHEV SKONCHALSIA (Khrushchev dead) and cabled the news forthwith. However, at week's end this explanation was exploded by a report from a German TV network that its Hamburg office had received a similar bogus message, save that it was signed "Britinform," cablese for the British Information Service in Bonn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: The Day Khrushchev Died | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...collecting back numbers of boys' magazines like Gem and Magnet through which he vicariously enjoys upper-class memories of "uncles with fivers, tuck shops, and inky fags." Acting as a rent collector in a shabby new housing development, he dreams of spending a week amid the iniquities of Hamburg's sex-riddled Reeperbahn. Yearning for some power to push him beyond compulsive peeping to the wilder shores of physical love, he finally cries out desperately: "There must be nymphomaniacs in the world. They do exist, they're not make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rag Shop of the Heart | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...while scrupulously obeying Junkerdom's rules of war (he freed prisoners who promised not to fight again, refused to fire on enemy officers at close range), finally laid down his arms 14 leisurely days after the 1918 armistice, the only undefeated German general in that war; in Hamburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 20, 1964 | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...residents of Munich, their city is not just Bavaria's capital and Germany's third largest city (after Berlin and Hamburg). It is Elysium on the Isar River - a steep-roofed, cobblestoned corner of heaven awash with foamy Doppelbier and festooned in Weisswurstle, the pale, succulent sausage that Münchners munch by the mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Young City | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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