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...cheap knickknacks on a dime-store counter. Yet those minor masterpieces of the 18th century which survive today are attracting a growing band of devoted collectors willing to pay up to $15,000 apiece for their finds. One of the most successful, as the newly published catalogue of his Meissen china (Harvard University Press; $25) makes plain, is Manhattan's Irwin Untermyer...
Personality & Private Life. A sturdy 5 ft. 10 in., Brucker likes to hike, golf, swim in the pool at home in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. In Washington he has not yet picked up a club, lives in a one-bedroom apartment where Mrs. Brucker collects Meissen china and 3-D photos. Their son is a third-generation lawyer in Detroit. Even-keeled Wilber Brucker neither drinks nor smokes, laughs readily and hail-fellows Odd Fellows, Masons, and a host of other fraternal brothers. At a recent Washington party he met a Soviet general, who asked if he had ever seen...
...hoary staple of a dozen revues--the parody of famous playwrights' styles. Even the spectacle of Miss Davis as a hillbilly crone and a lethargic slattern in gym shoes can't offset a script which comes up with a little horror like Flying Saucers, featuring a trio of spacemen (Meissen, Delit, and Spode) wearing tea cups...
Ever since the early 18th Century the East German cathedral town of Meissen (pop. 48,000) has been famed for fine china. Little damaged during World War II, it went on, under the Russian thumb, producing traditional luxury ware, even though a single Meissen cup cost upwards of 50 East marks-more than the average weekly salary of an East German workman. Last week Meissen was busy reorienting itself to the new order in East Germany. In place of its world-famed baroque "Red Dragon," "Green Ivy" and "Onion" (blue & white) patterns, it was setting out to shift "without artistic...
...militantly whooped up a Whitsunday youth march on West Berlin. The Reds had proclaimed that, on May 28, half-a-million members of the Communist-run FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend) would converge on Berlin's Western sectors in military formation. Their slogan: "Forward-Berlin Must Be Ours!" In Meissen, a Communist speaker had added a warlike warning. Said he: "When the first shot is fired, that will be the signal for the storming of Berlin...