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...tried to buy the paper, including one who was a close friend of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. But the British were choosy. Last week they found a buyer who suited them. For an estimated $1,000,000 the High Commissioner recommended sale of Die Welt to Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer, who would thereby become the biggest publisher on the continent with control of about 15% of the circulation of West Germany's press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Germany's Press Lord | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...pressure area over the Gulf, a cold front was moving out from Texas, and small-craft warnings were flying along the coast. But the weather was expected to remain well within the "limits of operating conditions" for the four-engined DC-6. Its captain, Ernest A. Springer, was a 44-year-old veteran of airline operation. National had safely flown the tri-city route 9,978 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Silence from the Gulf | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...plane made a routine landing at Tampa and took off again at 4:40 with 41 passengers-many of them holiday travelers bound for the Mardi Gras. It was due in New Orleans at 5:45 C.S.T., but Flight 470 was never completed. Captain Springer's last radio report, at 5:12, gave no hint of danger. After that, attempts to get in touch with the plane were answered only by a silence-silence and the howl of sudden heavy winds which battered the shore line hard enough to tear off roofs at Grand Isle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Silence from the Gulf | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

APRIL-Extraction. In Chicago, Louise Springer confessed that she went for treatment to six dentists and, while they bent over her with the drill, picked their pockets for a total take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Another passing barrage was propelling the Indians forward later in the period. From the Crimson 25, Miller tossed a fourth-down screen pass to fullback John Springer. Crimson halfback Brian Reynolds fought off a downfield block by guard Alex Athanas and made a fine tackle to save a touchdown...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: 31,000 See Crimson Down Dartmouth, 26-19 | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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