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...them in the three major repertory opera theaters (the Metropolitan. Chicago and San Francisco operas). West Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, on the other hand, have about 60 thoroughly professional opera companies, most of them small houses that the musical tourist rarely hears of: Flensburg, Krefeld, Oldenburg. Hof, Saarbrucken, Augsburg. Kassel, Koblenz, Oberhausen, Bielefeld. There are some 150 U.S. singers in German-speaking houses today, constituting about 20% of the soloists. California-born Soprano Mary Gray, 29, recalls a Traviata in Karlsruhe last season: "The three leads came out for the curtain calls, and I looked around and thought...
From a pine-covered knoll near Hof (pop. 60,000) in central Germany, five G.I.s of Bravo Company. 2nd U.S. Armored Cavalry, last week stood watchful guard on a section of the Iron Curtain. Staff Sergeant William S. Nolen Jr.. 21. of Mt. Holly. N.C.. in charge of this pinpoint on 500 miles of West German frontier, had his .30-cal. machine guns dug in. his field telephone ready at hand. Beyond the barbed wire and strip of plowed land that marked the border lay the peaceful green hills of East Germany's Thuringia-and as close...
...years later, Rosie moved on to Frankfurt and became a bar girl. Soon she had enough money to buy a modest Ford Taunus, then graduated to a red-upholstered Mercedes 190 SL. She would cruise up and down the Kaiserstrasse or park in front of the Frankfurter Hof, the city's swankest hotel. As a plump, well-tailored captain of industry approached, Rosie would appear to be having trouble with her engine, and appeal prettily for help. Her tab was high-anywhere up to 1,000 marks in a city where 20 is the average. Explained a Frankfurt businessman...
JUNE-The Bite. In Hof, Germany, Brewery Worker Karl Wunderlich, 24, was convicted of breaking into a delicatessen after police fitted his teeth to marks left in the end of a 2-lb. salami...
...Bite. In Hof, Germany, Brewery Worker Karl Wunderlich, 24, was convicted of breaking into a delicatessen after police fitted his teeth to marks left in the end of a 2-lb. salami...