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Emmanuel Margolis 1G received chairmanship of the new group. Also elected were Rolf B. Myerson '48, vice-chairman; Jerome E. Carlin '49, secretary; and Lazare Nesin '48, treasurer...
...shirtless "she" was Doris Brigitte von Knobloch, a Darmstadt dental assistant. Fraülein von Knobloch was one of the hundreds of thousands of Europe's little people whose lives have been disrupted by war and thwarted by frontiers. One day during World War II, she had met Rolf Berndt on a Berlin street corner. Gitte was then a police clerk and Rolf a trusty from Sachsenhausen internment camp. "He looked so humiliated in his prison uniform," she explained, "that I said a nice word. He looked so beautiful when he answered, I guess I fell in love right...
When peace came, Rolf went to the U.S., where he got a job as a truck driver in Manhattan. Gitte longed for Rolf and Rolf longed for Gitte. Rolf filed affidavits for her support, but for two years official red tape held her fast in Frankfurt. At last Gitte decided to ship herself by air freight...
...Manhattan hall bedroom, Rolf Berndt puzzled over the strange cable: "Send $150. See Gitte soon, (signed) Siedentopf." Rolf was a cautious man. Says he: "I wasn't going to send money to someone I never heard of." So in the air freight office at Frankfurt, Private, Siedentopf and his fragile burden waited in vain while airport officials waved a bill for $130 freight charges. "Can't I send it C.O.D.?" asked the G.I. The answer was no. "Oh, well, then just store it. I'll be back." Into the storeroom went the box. After an uncomfortable...
...Thank God she's alive," said Rolf Berndt when someone told him that Gitte would almost certainly have frozen to death in the unheated freight compartment of a Stratoliner. Sighed an airline official in Frankfurt: "Just say that I'd like to have some woman love me enough to fly to New York in that little...