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Last week Else and Irma were busy making Adelheide their home. They brought in evergreen branches to decorate their room. With a saw borrowed from the carpentry shop, they made little frames for the pictures of their relatives. Else could hardly get over their good fortune...
...usual in Western Germany, they carried tiny battered satchels instead of suitcases, and their eyes were bright with anticipation. Thirty-five-year-old Pastor Reich, who lost one leg to a Russian mortar shell, hobbled forward on his cane to introduce himself. "Guten Tag," said Else Hartmann and Irma Mueller shyly...
...Adelheide over into a kind of coeducational Boys Town* and run it jointly. Today it houses 796 children-590 Catholic and 206 Protestant. On the Catholic side (a 22-year-old German law enforces rigid segregation in all joint Protestant-Catholic welfare enterprises) there are 272 girls. Else and Irma are the village's first Protestant girls...
...girls are typical of Adelheide's population. Nervous, dark-haired Irma was working in a textile mill in the Russian zone when the millowners and technicians suddenly decamped to set up another mill under Allied occupation. Jobless and starving, Irma wound up at a refugee camp. From there she was rescued and sent to the Christliches Jugenddorf. Plump, blonde Else had been working as a cook when told that she had been requisitioned by the Soviet military government. She was so terrified that she fled across the border without waiting to find out what the Russians wanted...
Divorced. By John Francis Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, 47, Britain's eleventh ranking duke: Irma Amelia Howard, 39, ex-ballet dancer; after 15 years of marriage, no children; in London. In 1947 the Duchess got a U.S. divorce, which Britain did not recognize, next day married her third husband, Manhattan Oil Consultant Frank Atherton Howard...