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...Berlin in 1918, Wolpe (pronounced Volpay) grew up in Paris and was made stateless in 1934 when the Nazis revoked the citizenship of all German Jews living outside the Reich. He went to work as a coal miner at nineteen and later got a job on an Antwerp pier...
...into view once or twice, then vanished in the mist. A few minutes later it bobbed free of the boiling water, just as Hill had predicted, but it had been broken to a tangled, shapeless mass. Hill was gone. His mangled body was recovered 16 hours later near the pier of the famed Maid of the Mist sightseeing boat...
...They kept things quiet, and Galveston, which has a remarkable tolerance for slot machines, bars and bordellos, left them strictly to their own devices. Only the Texas Rangers tried to give them trouble. But the Maceos' biggest enterprise, the Balinese Room, is built at the end of a pier; liquor and gambling apparatus had a way of disappearing before the Rangers got in. When the coppers appeared, the band struck up The Eyes of Texas, and the head waiter strode up to give them a hearty, if overly triumphant welcome...
...News, Va., the 51,500-ton, 990-ft. United States was "launched," i.e., she was towed from the flooded drydock in which she was built (she was too big for the ways of any U.S. shipyard) into the James River, and gently nudged by twelve tugs to her finishing pier...
Teresa. The story of a troubled war bride introduces the refreshing talent of Italy's Pier Angeli in her U.S. debut (TIME, April...