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...meantime, "The Jorie Hill Von Ohlen Liver Transplant Fund" at a Geneva, Ill, bank stands at $50,000. "The Brett Wethington Fund" has collected $40,000, from town rummage and bake sales, hair-cut-a-thons, pet shows, pancake breakfasts and anonymous donors. Fortunately, according to their mothers, Brett's disease has not yet progressed too far, and Jorie remains in stable condition. She is among the top five on a waiting list at the University of Pittsburgh. Unlike the Minnesota hospital, Pittsburgh's Health Center has told Hill that, when the time comes, only medical and not financial considerations...
Everything seemed to be "going" well enough. The people cheered Ludendorff when he swaggered in or out of anywhere. The Hitler storm troops were in possession of the city and the sun was shining brightly on the following day. "Chancellor" Hitler and "Commander-in-Chief" von Ludendorff were within the War Office when the loyal Bavarian Reichswehr stormed the building, and after a short battle the "beer hall revolt" was crushed...
...this pudgy, stoop-shouldered, toothbrush-mustached but magnetic little man bounded out of bed after four hours sleep, soaped his soft flesh with cold water, shaved with cold water, put on his always neat but never smart clothes and braced himself for the third of his encounters with Paul von Beneckendorf und von Hindenburg, Der Reichspräsident...
When Hitler turned up at the President's Palace, he found Old Paul all smiles and spruce Colonel Franz von Papen ready to pop the question: "Will you, Herr Reichspräsident, entrust Herr Hitler with a mandate to form a Cabinet...
...said President von Hindenburg, "Yes indeed...