Word: rth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German city of Fürth, in Middle Franconia, few people remember the Kissingers. Before World War II, Henry Kissinger's father Louis, now 82 and living in Manhattan with his wife Paula, was a respected Studienrat, or high school teacher. The family enjoyed a middle-class life: a five-room flat, many books, a servant and a piano, which young Heinz avoided practicing whenever possible. He preferred soccer...
...father did not have an easy time in New York. Unable to get a teaching post, he wound up working in an office. To this day, his heart is in Fürth. He has been back to visit twice, and two weeks ago wrote to the local newspaper to ask for clippings of stories about his son. Heinz, who soon became Henry, adapted much more easily. In Germany, he had been an average student. In Manhattan's George Washington High School, he became a straight-A pupil...
...Rate Tours. Schickedanz was running a small wholesale textile house in the Franconian city of Fürth when he first decided, in the 1920s, to send a list of goods directly to housewives. The idea worked so well that he expanded his line, was flooded by desperate bargain seekers when the Depression began. Bombed out during World War II, Quelle (meaning Source) reopened in 1948, built back its business by selling simple, basic goods to refugees. But it was not until the early '50s, when a prosperous Europe created its own mass market, that Schickedanz borrowed proven...