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With 1,500 guests present, the TIME of Your LIFE Ball was gala, and a huge success. To Mrs. H. J. Heinz II, chairman of the ball, the TIME Inc. theme seemed a natural for an affair that was both social and civic. Said she: "Why, everybody knows TIME and LIFE-it's like saying Hello...
...Vatican, Germany's go-getting Automaker Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 18, 1954) had a private audience with Pope Pius XII, a friend of Nordhoff's ever since the Pope was a papal nuncio in Berlin. Good Catholic Nordhoff presented His Holiness with a flashy new Volkswagen station wagon with a red body and black suntop...
...other ex-prisoner was Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, who was held for interrogation for three years in Moscow before being sent to a P.W. camp. The Führer and Eva, said Linge. "were alone in one of the bunker rooms. Eva Braun took poison. Hitler shot himself. I carried his body out of the bunker and then helped pour the gasoline over it." He watched for five minutes while flames devoured the leader of the master race. If Linge spoke the truth, this was at last the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to declare Adolf Hitler legally dead...
When the millionth Volkswagen beetled off a West German assembly line this month, Volkswagen workers were treated to 40,000 liters of beer, a cancan act from Paris and a speech frowning on the 40-hour week. "Work is much more satisfying than idleness," said Volkswagen President Heinz Nordhoff (TIME, Feb. 15, 1954). "It is not without good reason that the cycle of six working days and one Sunday has been in existence for thousands of years. No doubt, a Saturday off would be a nice gift to many but a curse to others. Most people live only to escape...
...that it has bought an assembly plant at New Brunswick, N.J., where Studebaker has turned out J47 turbojet engines. There, Volkswagen will assemble its rear-engine, four-cylinder cars for the U.S. market, where it already has 40% of all foreign-car sales (2,500 a month). In Jersey, Heinz Nordhoff is not likely to find many workers troubled by the emptiness and disconsolateness of a two-day weekend...