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...motley coalition of pacifists, patriots, militant trade unionists, left-wing Protestant pastors, wishful thinkers, Marxist intellectuals and East zone refugees who make up the SPD, the oversimplified cry of Einheit Deutschlands (German unity) has a ringing appeal. The Socialists' late leader, Kurt Schumacher, an embittered hulk after the Nazis endlessly roughed him up in concentration camps, left behind a sour political testament: "Never again must the Socialists be caught being less nationalistic than their opponents." That advice is being meticulously followed by the bewildered and small men like Erich Ollenhauer who have taken Schumacher's place...
...been fascinated with the sea ever since he moved to Havelock twelve years ago from western North Carolina. A tinkerer all his life, he had read a book about the wrecks off Cape Hatteras, and recently had tried a little amateur salvage work on an old World War I hulk up the coast from Havelock...
...later became a Christian convert and missionary (TIME, Nov. 17), paid Hawaii a return visit last week. "This time," he told reporters, "I come not with orders from Tokyo but from a higher command: God." When he spoke of a wish to lay a wreath on the bombed-out hulk of the U.S.S. Arizona, which still holds the bodies of 1,092 U.S. Navymen below decks, the Honolulu Advertiser editorialized: "Hawaii will listen with interest to what Captain Fuchida has to say, but Hawaii believes that his chief mission as a Christian now lies in Japan...
...never been able to get out of bed unaided. Polio, which is yearly taking a higher toll of adults, had spared the Kidder children but struck the father. As he puts it: "From active good health I was transformed in two short days into a motionless hulk...
Lanza's new picture was to be The Student Prince. At his studio's urging, Tenor Lanza whittled down his overstuffed, 2201b. hulk to a romantic, semi-princely 178 Ibs. But on shooting day, Mario did not feel like working...