Word: sobek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weekend Loafers. A great many of the new weekend breadmakers are men who would rather loaf than golf. To Manfred J. Sobek, 42, marketing vice president for Simmons International Ltd.(they make their bread from beds), this means a Sunday afternoon baking Viennese Strietzel, a kind of raisin bread. Sobek, who lives in Scarsdale, N.Y., also confects German Christmas bread, French bread, succulent Austrian tarts with buttercream and apple strudel. By 1951, when he first arrived in the U.S. from his native Germany, he explains, "I had this tremendous feeling of nostalgia. Holidays in Europe are accompanied by a grand...
Recently the brisk market in Hitler memorabilia has brought demands for the stamps' release. Two years ago Dr. Franz Sobek, then director of the State Printing Office, was set to sell the stamps to an anonymous collector for $250,000, a fraction more than 10 a stamp. But the Austrian Resistance Fighters objected to the idea that an official Austrian body should profit from "that face," and Dr. Sobek, who was president of the Resistance, quickly agreed. Sobek has since retired, and Austrian stamp dealers as well as lawyers for two important foreign buyers, said to be an American...