Word: nastatten
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...found the Eternal City in the midst of a mayoralty squabble. Then to Berlin, where he inspected the Wall, commenting: "It's the same as if you needed a passport to get from Brooklyn to Manhattan." He lunched with Frankfurt's Burgermeister and dropped in on bucolic Nastatten (pop. 2,600), from which his father, the late U.S. Senator, emigrated. Made an honorary citizen, Wagner asked if he could vote in the city elections. The literal Germans replied...
...seated in a wheel chair in Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was recovering from influenza, bull-necked Bob Wagner was baptized in the faith of Rome by Msgr. Robert F. Keegan, director of the New York archdiocese's Catholic Charities. Though born a Lutheran (in Nastatten, Germany) and raised in the U.S. a Methodist, Senator Wagner's conversion occasioned no surprise. His wife, who died in 1919, was a Catholic; his son, Robert Jr. was brought up as a Catholic. Obviously, Convert Wagner had been considering the move for some time. Said Msgr. Keegan...
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