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...concluded, not only displayed the smart ready-to-wear clothes that have helped put chic into German life; they were also an eye-popping showcase for the girls themselves. Since more than 1,000 models are needed for each of the big shows in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf, more than half of them are recruited from offices, universities, cafe society-and it is becoming more and more difficult to tell the amateur beauties from the pros...
...short, blunt-mannered Fritz-Aurel rebuilt the giant, expanded into industrial machinery and helicopters, sold 44% of his stock to such U.S. investors as Morgan Guaranty Trust and Yale University when German bankers refused to finance further expansion. Goergen lived like the entrepreneur he was. His suburban Düsseldorf villa, ransacked by police for evidence, is filled with rich rugs, works of art and salons the size of tennis courts...
There it stayed until the 1890s, when Felix Hoffmann, working for Friedrich Bayer & Co. outside Düsseldorf, tried the drug on his father and found that it miraculously eased the old man's rheumatic pains. Hoffmann's boss, Heinrich Dreser, coined the name aspirin, and rushed the drug to market. Aspirin was a registered trade name, and still is in Germany, though it lost that privileged status in the U.S. in 1917, when the Monsanto Co. began to make it in large quantities. Like nearly all other important chemicals, it is now made synthetically from coal...
...Monk at large in Europe last week was cheerful evidence of his new fame?and evidence, too, of how far jazz has come from its Deep South beginnings. In Amsterdam, Monk and his men were greeted by a sellout crowd of 2,000 in the Concertgebouw, and their DÜsseldorf audience was so responsive that Monk gave the Germans his highest blessing: "These cats are with it!" The Swedes were even more hip; Monk played to a Stockholm audience that applauded some of his compositions on the first few bars, as if he were Frank Sinatra singing Night...
...sseldorf doctors are confident that infectious diseases can be reduced by getting rid of the common towel. But the hot-air dryer, they say, is far from an effective replacement; it spreads germs faster by blowing them into the air. The Dusseldorf doctors prefer either the long roll, in which each part of the towel is used only once, or individual paper towels. Either way, they urge: "One person, one towel...