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...Lower Saxony, an old friend of Hitler's emerged from a wooden hut where he is living, unemployed, on a dole of $6.90 a week, to win a seat on both the town and county councils of Gifhorn. He was Brownshirt Wilhelm Schepmann, 58, last chief of staff of Hitler's Storm Troopers. Schepmann won easily, without even bothering to campaign. In other local elections in Lower Saxony the neo-Nazis campaigned on the slogan: "Stand fast. Remain German . . . We shall return." The Refugee Party, which had the Nazis' support, won 17% of the total vote...
Sometimes Higgins did not bother to wait for the high school crop. Once, he spotted a boy selling newspapers on the corner and, after a talk with him, sent him off to college and pharmacy school. Another time, he met a girl who lived in a hut by the railroad tracks. Within a short while, she was in college, too. In those days, Higgins never kept track of the money he spent. It was not until 1946 that he organized his hobby into a foundation...
Bell came near to developing an inferiority complex once when interviewing a Kurdish chieftain in his mud hut near the Russian border. When the tribesman asked how many wives and sons he had, Bell owned up to one of each. Said the chieftain: "That makes me twice the man you are. I have two wives and two sons." Back in his headquarters in Beirut this week, Bell is feeling better about his social status. With the arrival of the Richardson, the TIME bureau, at least, can boast of two wives...
...whites and was rewarded by being made head man of his village. Mdhlani married, prospered, begat children, grew old, respected and respectable. But one son, Clifford, became a thief and a gangster. Three years ago, son Clifford, all his bravado gone, crept into his father's hut. He whispered that he had murdered a white Durban policeman, and blubbered: "They will hang...
...Mdhlani went out alone into the veld, stayed there three days and three nights, praying to God for guidance. When he returned on the third night, he went straight to Clifford's hut, took one of Clifford's three pistols and killed his sleeping son. Then he surrendered to the police. In Durban police court, he said: "I shot my son because he killed a white man. Do what you will." Mdhlani was sentenced to hang...