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Death by the Window. When General Manager Rudolf Bing decided to overhaul Carmen last spring, he handed the staging job to Tyrone Guthrie, topnotch director of London's Old Vic, and Designer Rolf Gerard. From the start, they decided on "naturalism," e.g., the workers in a Seville cigarette factory ought to look, for a change, a bit like factory workers...
Leopold Ullstein, a Jewish paper dealer, had started the company in 1877 when he bought the money-losing Neue Berliner Tageblatt (circ. 4,000). He put it on its feet, bought other moribund newspapers and kept expanding. After his death in 1899, his five sons-Hans, Louis, Franz, Rudolf, Hermann-proved equally shrewd, expanded more. They made one big mistake: they thought Adolf Hitler's Jew-baiting was merely campaign oratory. When they still had time to turn the tremendous power of their newspapers and magazines against the rise of Naziism, the Ullstein brothers did nothing. When Hitler came...
...from a buyer who was not named. He turned out to be Hitler himself. Soon the Nazis milked the Ullsteins of most of the $4,300,000 with trumped-up taxes, special levies, fines, etc. Hans and Louis died, and the other three fled the country-Rudolf to England, Franz and Hermann to the U.S. Ex-Millionaire Hermann came out of Germany with 10 marks (about...
...with all of his brothers dead, Rudolf Ullstein went back to Berlin to try to get back the property. The trouble was that the sale to the Nazis had been legal, and the city of Berlin had confiscated the plants, as it had all Nazi property. Rudolf fought on anyway, fearfully flitting in & out of the plant to keep an eye on it, although always using the back door...
Last week, after a German court ordered the property restored to the family, into the U.S. High Commissioner's office tottered 77-year-old Rudolf Ullstein, on the arm of his nephew Karl. As he signed the document of restitution, tears of joy streamed down the old man's face. With his property he got problems galore-back taxes, licenses, scant and high-priced newsprint. But these will be problems for Karl and his cousins, who will run Ullstein's. For old Rudolf, victory alone was enough. "Now," said he, "I can walk through the front door...