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Died. Frau Elly Heuss-Knapp, 71, wife of Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Federal Republic; after long illness; in Bonn. The daughter of Economist George Knapp, she founded the first evening school for women in Strasbourg when she was only 19. When the Nazis burned her husband's books and banned him from teaching in Berlin, Frau Heuss-Knapp supported the family by writing jingles for soap...
...Trinity Church. This onetime landmark on the New York skyline, which now nestles prim and diminutive between office buildings at the head of Wall Street, owns five chapels and an estimated $35 million worth of city real estate. This week Trinity inducted its 13th rector-redheaded Dr. John Heuss Jr., 43, present director of the Episcopal Church's national department of Christian education...
...been on the lookout for a new rector since June, when the Rev. Frederic S. Fleming, 65, announced his retirement after serving the 254-year-old parish since 1932. Trinity is traditionally a steppingstone to the bishopric of New York, the church's richest diocese. High Churchman Heuss, who built up his department of Christian education from a staff of two to a staff of 50 in four years, has already been mentioned as a possible second Suffragan Bishop of New York...
...very polite. "Highly esteemed President," wrote East German Boss Wilhelm Pieck last week to spry old Theodor Heuss of West Germany, "I approach you at a time of great import ... I propose ... a meeting to discuss how the road can be smoothed for the convening of all-German consultations to bring about the peaceful reunification of Germany...
...from smoothing the road, of course, Moscow's orders to Stooge Pieck were to roll huge stones in the way, unless the West accepted the East's unacceptable terms. President Heuss replied, not quite so gently, "The sincerity of your proposal is questionable." That Heuss could answer so quickly and firmly was a sign that West Germans had come to see the Red proposal for what it is: a bogus offer of unity, subject to Russian conditions, and designed solely to disrupt West German rearmament. West Germans, most of whom really do want a unified Germany, were looking...