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...technically vindicated, after a trial for misconduct of Berlin's fiscal affairs (TIME, Oct. 20, et ante). As famous in Berlin as U. S. oil's "Little Black Bag" is the "Boess Fur Coat," "bought" by Frau Boess for a tenth part of its value from the Sklarek Brothers, rascally civic uniform contractors...
Irrevocably smirched seemed Gustav ("Pinochle Gus") Boess, famed Ober-Bürgermeister of Berlin, when, during his tour of the U. S. last year, it appeared that Frau Boess had "bought" a magnificent fur coat for next to nothing from the Sklarek brothers, Berlin clothing contractors to whom fat municipal contracts had been awarded...
...round face moon-pale, Mayor Boess stood by the rail of the superspeedy S S. Bremen as she was warped into her pier at Bremerhaven. Dock police were struggling with shouting Communists who strove to hold aloft a six-foot banner on which the words BOESS-SKLAREK were accusingly visible. Deep boos, shrill whistles echoed from the dockside...
...Mayor Boess blanched even paler. Frau Boess, defiantly wearing her notorious fur coat, squeezed his elbow to hearten him. First up the gangplank to greet them came Berlin's acting Mayor, Bürgermeister Scholtz with a fat briefcase full of documents of the latest evidence against the Sklarek brothers and their city clothing contracts. Glumly he presented it to his superior, then ducked away to speed back to Berlin by airplane...
Even at home Herr & Frau Boess were not allowed to forget the Sklarek fur coat. Communists booed and hooted under the Boess windows until driven away by industrious Schupos, then came back to boo and hoot some more. Most persistent was a stalwart young Red who strode up and down before the house clad with eccentric symbolism in an amorphous, shaggy fur coat dyed flaming yellow...