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Under Cover Names. The Communists have tried hard to eliminate Gehlen. In a 1953 ambush on a lonely road near Munich, Gehlen escaped death only because his windshield was of bulletproof glass. Attempts to get at his wife and four children have been narrowly frustrated. Gehlen travels under a variety of cover names, and has not been photographed since the war years. Unable to do him bodily harm, the Communists scream that Gehlen is the high priest of a revived Naziism (he never joined the Nazi Party); the current Red line is that Gehlen is plotting the rescue of Mass...
Sliding Doors. After West Germany became a sovereign state in 1955, the new government took over Gehlen's operation. For the past 13 years Gehlen has been established in the village of Pullach, some five miles from Munich, in a tree-shaded compound on the banks of the Isar River. Surrounded by a 10-ft. concrete wall, the compound looks like a housing development, with neat lawns and flower beds, lace-curtained villas and administration buildings. At each entrance are electrically operated sliding doors of steel mesh, with sentry boxes manned by armed and uniformed guards. Gehlen...
Hausmusik. The most popular groups at both festivals bore nostalgic. New Orleans-styled names. The winning band at Berlin was called "Papa Kos Jazzin' Babies," and among the 23 bands at Frankfurt were the Riverboat Seven of Munich, the Diissel-dorf Feetwarmers. Berlin's Spree City Stompers. They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care...
...raconteur of such Parsons-Hopper-Lyons-Kilgallen glimpses of the jet set at play is not named Louella, Hedda, Leonard or Dorothy. He is Germany's Wiener-Schnitzel Winchell, Gossipist Hannes Obermaier, who writes a daily Page 2 column for Munich's tabloid Abendzeitung called "Hunter Jots Down''-the name Hunter coming from a brand of Dutch cigarettes that Obermaier likes. In the eight years that Obermaier has chronicled high life in Europe's low places, Abendzeitung's circulation has shot from 17,000 to 105,000. His bosses give him much...
...Jungle. Obermaier has not always been such a fat cat in the celebrity jungle. Born in a Bavarian village, he was a student in Munich when World War II broke out, was wounded on the Russian front, spent two years in a prisoner-of-war camp. In 1949, after a variety of jobs, he won a competition for a cub reporter's opening on Abendzeitung by doing a story about a night in a Munich police station. While the other contestants spent the evening in police stations, Obermaier stayed in his hotel room, wrote the story as he imagined...