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...West Berlin, on the tenth anniversary of the attempt on Hitler's life, John met with a bunch of his old "resistance" pals to celebrate. Later that night he had taken a taxi to the house of Dr. Wolfgang ("Wowo") Wohlgemuth, an old friend-as well as a suspected Communist. Together they had been seen driving into East Berlin...
...Eugenie for $20. She was given a sulfa treatment for her spear wound and nursed back to health (on a diet of clams and cucumbers) in a local swimming pool. No available aircraft could carry a tankful of water big enough to enclose a sea-elephant, but since the taxi ride proved that Eugenie could live out of water, Dr. Harry decided to fly her home on an air mattress...
...care of the baby, Peter, who is four months old; Manning does a fair share of the cooking. "I'd like to lead a glamorous life," she says, "but it tires me out." As it is, she scarcely drinks four shots of whisky in a year, and a taxi ride is almost like a spree. She has no jewelry, no furs. She still wears some blouses that she bought in high school. The spice of her life is a window-shopping walk down Fifth Avenue...
...clock every night in Paris, the trucks are jammed into every narrow street from the Opera to the Louvre. Horns squawk, cops shout, taxi drivers curse and take long detours, but nothing helps until 9 o'clock the next morning when the trucks roar away. The noisy, redolent center of this nightly hubbub, and its cause, is Les Halles Centrales, Paris' central food market...
...since the early days of radio's Amos 'n' Andy had so many Americans waited so breathlessly for an evening broadcast. The question "Will he go for it?" was self-explanatory, whether asked in taxi, train, hotel lobby or on a city street. The he in this case was Marine Captain Richard S. McCutchen. The 28-year-old naval science instructor at Ohio State, father of three and amateur cooking expert, had reached the $32,000 mark on The $64,000 Question by breezily describing the ingredients of five desserts: bombe, zabaglione, olycook, flummery and pfeffernuss...