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Pastor Herbert Reich had never seen the two 15-year-old girls before, but when they clambered down from the crowded third-class coach at the Delmenhorst station one day last week, he recognized them at once. Their clothes were clean but more patched and ragged than is usual in Western Germany, they carried tiny battered satchels instead of suitcases, and their eyes were bright with anticipation. Thirty-five-year-old Pastor Reich, who lost one leg to a Russian mortar shell, hobbled forward on his cane to introduce himself. "Guten Tag," said Else Hartmann and Irma Mueller shyly...
...look upon Adelheide as the next thing to heaven. With almost no urging, they have organized an orchestra, a fortnightly Mimeographed paper, a system of student government. But sometimes there are problems. The Catholic director, cheery, pink-faced Alfons Loebbert, a layman, has more of these than Protestant Pastor Reich, since some 400 of the Catholic children are neither orphans nor wanderers: they are children of Berliners, flown out of the city by the R.A.F. at the beginning of winter, to ease the burden of the blockade...
...Main Echo, at Aschaffenburg, went even farther. It accused Die Neue Zeitung of hiring a "publicist of the onetime Goebbels organ, the Reich [and] other National Socialist publicists" for its staff...
...Chicago's climate bothered him, for one thing: "I'm afraid the wind would make me nervous." He was even more worried about Chicago's hospitality. Explained an intimate friend: "The maestro . . . fears he may be unwelcome because he was appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...
...sweep the name of Wilhelm Pieck, pink-faced boss of the city's Reds, from the roll of its honorary citizens. Then they went to work on some moldering skeletons in the back closets. Also wiped from the honor roll: Hitler, Goebbels and Göring. Second-Reich President Paul von Hindenburg survived...