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Dolls Aren't Real. Audrey's mother belonged to an ancient family in the Dutch nobility; their home was once the Castle of Doom, in which the defeated German Kaiser spent his declining years. Audrey's grandfather, Baron Aernoud van Heemstra, onetime governor of the Dutch colony of Surinam, was a familiar figure at the court of Queen Wilhelmina...
...decades of European kings and U.S. millionaires; in his plush Park Hotel at Homburg, Germany. Proud owner of the world's most fashionable hideaway from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter's control, became a resort for West Germany...
...General Motors' modern, air-conditioned brick plant in Livonia, Mich, one day last week, the second shift had just filed in to start a normal day's work turning out Hydra-Matic transmissions for G.M., Lincoln, Kaiser, Hudson and Nash. Moments later, sparks from a welder's torch ignited an oil-soaked conveyor belt; suddenly flames leapfrogged from one drip pan to another. After that said Foreman Floyd Davis, everything "went up like a torch...
...days' supply, prepared to expand Mercury production, cut back on Lincolns. Hudson (58%), shut down for a model change, has "a couple of weeks' supply"; Nash (33%) has enough for a few weeks, but has been shut down by a supplier's strike; Kaiser (60%) has been closed since June. Said G.M. President Harlow Curtice after inspecting Livonia: "At this moment every facility ... is being concentrated on the extensive rebuilding job that faces us . . ." Curtice moved fast, this week took steps to lease 1,500,000 sq. ft. of idle Kaiser Motors Corp. space at Willow...
...KAISER Motors Corp., whose big Willow Run plant has been shut down ever since the Air Force canceled its contracts for C-119 Flying Boxcars (TIME, July 6), will keep the plant closed for good unless the C.I.O. Auto Workers agree to a new contract permitting a relaxation of seniority rules so that workers can be used more efficiently. President Edgar Kaiser is moving final assembly operations permanently to his Willys Motors plant at Toledo, but he hopes to use Willow Run to make parts if the union is willing to cooperate...