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Fiddlesticks, says Konrad Leonhardt, director of the Mittenwald violin school in Germany. "Delightful as the Stradivari varnish might be to look at," he says, "it hardly contributes anything to the sound." Time, say the experts, is far more important. "A man reaches his prime around 40, a violin at about 100," explains Cremona Luthier Pietro Sgarabotto. Thus many luthiers insist that old violins are better only because they are older, that a century from now the fiddles being made by such modern masters as Sacconi, and Carl Becker Sr. of Chicago, will equal the fabled Strad. That, of course, remains...
...which goes to non-Jewish readers. The Jewish Weekly has not only served as the uncontested voice of Germany's diminished Jewish population of 30,000 (from a prewar 500,000), it has also played a major role in shaping German policies. It was instrumental in persuading Konrad Adenauer to make financial restitution to the Jews and establish diplomatic relations with the state of Israel...
...bitter political fighting that produced a five-week crisis in West Germany's government. When he left the Bundestag and took his leave of the Palais Schaumburg, where for three years he had ruled as Chancellor, Erhard was a lonely and dejected figure. No such emotions troubled flinty old Konrad Adenauer, Germany's first postwar Chancellor and the onetime boss of both Erhard and Kiesinger. While the delegates clapped and cheered for the new Chancellor, Adenauer sat on the front bench and busily autographed copies of his memoirs for all comers...
...Dirty Hands. From his office in Baden-Würtemberg, Kiesinger watched the prestige of Ludwig Erhard's government gradually deteriorating. Konrad Adenauer had warned that Erhard would be politically unskilled as Chancellor, but just about everyone put that down to an old man's churlishness. When Erhard took over in 1963, it proved all too true. Though smart, sincere and honest, Erhard did not care to dirty his hands in the invariable give-and-take of political battle. He expected the voters to follow him out of gratitude, and for a while they did. But politicians seldom survive long...
...Chancellor went ahead and stepped down. And the C.D.U.'s Deputy Leader Rainer Barzel, who had been instrumental in forcing Erhard to face the caucus, was now maneuvering to isolate Erhard from any remaining support. About the only Erhard enemy not on the scene was flinty old (90) Konrad Adenauer. Though he had sniped mercilessly at Erhard almost from the day in 1963 that he handed the job over to him, the ex-Chancellor was strangely quiet, presumably recovering from the effects of a bad cold...