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What Ernestine Schlant remembers about her childhood in Nazi Germany is, oddly, the freedom. She lived in the Bavarian city of Passau, where most mothers were working and fathers were away in the military. "We six- and seven-year-olds used to sneak into the movies to see old Shirley Temple films," says Schlant, a professor of German at Montclair State University in New Jersey and the wife of Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and current challenger for the White House. Later Schlant learned that less than two miles from Passau, hundreds of civilian prisoners were being worked to death...
Married. William ("Dollar Bill") Bradley, 30, reserved 6-ft. 5-in. forward for the New York Knicks basketball team, former Rhodes scholar and America's top college ballplayer during his Princeton days; and Ernestine Schlant, an associate professor of comparative literature at Montclair State College in New Jersey, who met Bradley while she was working on a film about Poetess Marianne Moore several years ago; in Palm Beach...