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When Ervin Kotowski was installed recently as grand knight of Milwaukee's largest Knights of Columbus Council, he got a telegram of congratulations from Circuit Judge Claire Voss, imperial potentate of the city's big Tripoli Masonic Shrine. Exclaimed Kotowski: "Imagine the Shriners congratulating me!" A lot of brotherly things that would have been hard to imagine a few years ago are happening today be tween the Roman Catholic Knights and their longtime antagonists, the predominantly Protestant Masons...
...love at first sight, or so it seemed. Dashing, suave Peter Hansen, 25, a construction engineer, swept curvaceous Dorothea Voss, 17, off her feet with dancing by candlelight, dinners for two and sweet talk of marriage. Then off they motored from the West German town of Heide to West Berlin for a day's outing, with the blessing of the girl's parents. After lingering in sidewalk cafes, Peter suggested they go over to Communist East Berlin. "It'll be really interesting, darling," he whispered, tenderly pressing her hand...
Hansen had passed through the Berlin wall with quite another Dorothea Voss...
...left behind when he fled to West Germany a year ago. Pondering various schemes to get Barbara out, he had hit on the idea of finding a West German girl who resembled her closely, luring the girl to East Berlin and then filching her documents. Winsome Dorothea Voss seemed to fit the bill, and the scheme worked perfectly. Once in West Berlin the reunited couple sped to Tempelhof Airport and winged their way to West Germany...
...wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really is a sweet old German nanny at Sellers' place, and she often gets an earful when she answers: "Voss diss?" Now that Alec Guinness has opted for serious roles, Peter Sellers is the best light actor in the English-speaking cinema...