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Mirth & Misery. Ever since his father died when he was ten, Guignard's life has been a mixture of mirth and misery. His mother, who was rich in her own right, took him off to Germany and married a Munich baron. Guignard himself fell hopelessly in love with a boardinghouse keeper's daughter and married her at 18, but his young wife soon ran away...
Guignard plunged into art studies in Munich, Florence, Padua, Venice, Paris. He built up a small, solid reputation-and a big, solid thirst...
...West Germany, a day after the New York disaster, a U.S. Air Force Convair, carrying 13 holiday-bound University of Maryland students and a crew of seven, crashed in downtown Munich shortly after takeoff, heeled sharply into a two-section trolley car jammed with Christmas shoppers, and exploded into a fiery pyre. All aboard the plane and at least 60 Germans were killed...
Last winter Sweden's beautiful, bouncy Princess Birgitta went to West Germany to improve her German and indulge her zest for sports. While in Munich, Birgitta, 23, who teaches gymnastics, met a young man ideally equipped to help her with both projects. A skilled gymnast himself, Germany's rugged Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, is mad for sports, will soon get his doctor's degree from the University of Munich in the fresh-air field of archaeology - which is also the lifelong hobby of Birgitta's grandfather, Sweden's King Gustaf. Later, invited...
...Divine Simplicity. The rambunctious Defense Minister has settled down a bit since 1957, when he married a brewer's attractive daughter, a summa cum laude graduate of the same Munich school where Strauss was primus (top) of his class. They have a ig-month-old son named Max Josef, and Strauss has already bought the boy an electric train and, of course, made himself an expert on electric trains. He still manages to knock back heroic quantities of Sekt (German champagne), may sit up all hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three...