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...which Hitler found a childish delight. Nothing that happened in Germany was beyond or beneath Lammers' passion for detail. The prosecution last week produced a letter he had written in 1941 to Germany's Minister of Justice: "The enclosed newspaper clipping about the conviction of the Jew Marcus Luftgas to a prison sentence of two and one-half years [for the hoarding of eggs] has been submitted to the Führer. The Führer wishes that Luftgas be sentenced to death. May I ask you urgently to instigate the necessary steps...
...week's end the first returns were in. In Dallas, Neiman-Marcus Co. practically sold out a $5,000 shipment in four days. In Manhattan, B. Altman & Co. sold out its Merry Mites almost as fast. Other orders were coming in so fast that the Geissmanns' goal of a $750,006 output this year (provided they can get enough material) began to seem much too small...
...honors graduates, only one, Lloyd Marcus '48, a Social Relations concentrator, received his degree summa laude. Three others, Jerome J. Newman '47, Edward D. McDougal III '46, and Uco Van Wijk '45, were graduated magna cum laude in the highest group...
...testimoniale, prescuted by Lloyd Marcus '48, were in the form of two scrolls, designed by J. R. Rosen, famous as framer of University degrees. Unprecedented in PBH history, the awards came as a complete surprise to Brooks and Meltzer...
Raising an almost imperceptible eyebrow (by mentioning that the letter came by prepaid cable), the Times ran Tovarish Shisheyev's dispatch in its news columns. It remained for a Times reader to supply the grain of salt. Wrote Russian-born J. Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close...