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When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia back in 1939, Hans Lenk's world was washed from beneath him. In the years after World War I-during which he served as a captain in the Austro-Hungarian army-he had built up a prosperous export business in Carlsbad. But the Nazis, busily stripping Jews of their fortunes, sent him to the Dachau concentration camp, then released him and told him to get out of the country-or else...
...Jewish Hospital at Denver and this winter, his TB arrested, he arrived in Kansas City. Friends saw to it that special bills for permanent residence were introduced in both the Senate and the House, but Congress did nothing about either. Last week, 60 years old and almost penniless, Hans Lenk was beginning to lose hope at last. Unless Congress acted, he would have to leave the country in less than a month and start all over again the whole slow and painful task of trying to become an American...
...promote South American good will, Manhattan's misogynous New York Athletic Club, for the first time in its 73-year history, last week permitted women to splash in its pool. Reason: Brazil's 26-year-old Maria Lenk, breaststroke champion of South America and holder of the women's world's record at 200 and 400 meters...
Brought to the U.S. as guests of the Amateur Athletic Union (at a cost of some $6,000), Nadadora Lenk and five of South America's flashiest male swimmers will compete in eleven U.S. meets, will show U.S. rivals what to expect when, and if the Pan-American Games are held at Buenos Aires beginning next November. Miss Lenk has swum 200 meters in 2 min. 56 sec., 400 meters in 6 min. 15.8 sec. Best breaststroke time chalked up by a U.S. girl: 3:14.8 for 200 meters, 6:44.6 for 400 meters...