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...number of German readers still dwindling, Victor F. Ridder, 67, son of Herman Ridder, announced that he was selling the Staats-Zeitung und Herald (circ. 22,462), now the largest German-language daily in the U.S., for an undisclosed sum. The new owners: August Steuer, a retired New York restaurateur, and Erwin Single, business manager of the Ridder Journal of Commerce...
Mixed Feelings. The U.S. press and people reacted with mixed feelings. Ex-President Harry Truman remarked: "I am sorry to hear of [Stalin's] trouble ... I'm never happy over anybody's physical breakdown." Much more typical was a Chicago restaurateur who put a black wreath in his window, with a sign below reading: "Joe's gone. Vodka on the house." The New York Daily News, as usual, called a spade a meat-ax: "Jailbird son of a drunken cobbler . . . in essence, a backwoods plug-ugly and killer." Less crudely, but no less clear...
...executives before returning to Worcester, where his program will begin over station WTAG later this month. His listeners will hear a Copenhagen housewife admitting that "Danish husbands haven't entirely forgotten the tradition of the Vikings-they're never ones to help with the dishes"; a Belgian restaurateur complaining that American students "all sit around with their feet on chairs"; and an 18-year-old Dutch boy saying, dispiritedly: "I don't believe in God, and that's true of more than one-third of the Dutch...
Check, Please. In Montgomery, Ala., a jury ordered Restaurateur Mike Miaoulis to pay $4,542 damages to a friend whose ear lobe he had bitten off in a fight...
...second largest oil painting,* the Panthéon de la Guerre, 18,090 square feet of World War I battlefield scenes, completed in 1919 by a task force of more than 120 French artists and last exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933. Purchaser: Baltimore Restaurateur William H. Haussner, who bought the painting for $3,400 from the storage warehouse where it had lain unclaimed for the past seven years...