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...shops that line the Binnen-Alster Lake, in the heart of the city, look like those of Fifth Avenue; their windows are filled with French perfumes, Danish silver and Paris gowns, minks and foxes. Splendid restaurants (including the Seute Deern, a three-masted schooner tied up at the waterfront) serve fresh caviar and Prague ham; a meal costs...
...waterfront sector of St. Pauli, dozens of nightclubs stretch along a half-mile of neon lights on the Reeperbahn. Seamen of all nations dance with heavily rouged "animation ladies," and pay Stork Club prices for flaccid German champagne. The rule at the Bal Paradox is that the women ask the men to dance. In Hamburg's railroad station is the Treffpunkt agency: for 25 marks ($5.95) a man can leaf through a photo album, select a girl, arrange a date. Says proud Treffpunkt Manager Max Pollack: "All my girls are high-class, and you'd be surprised...
Promptly at 9 o'clock, "Mike" Johnson, 45, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of waterfront crime (TIME, May 16), walked into the office of courtly, white-haired Executive Editor Keats* Speed, 70, editorial boss for 33 years of the staid, arch-conservative Sun. Said Speed in anguished accents: "I am taking you into my confidence because I have a nasty job to do. You must not breathe a word of this. We are being sold today, and I am an absolute wreck." Speed ordered stunned Reporter Johnson to lock himself in the musty...
Load of Briclcs. Amid persistent objections from Vincent Hallinan, Harry Bridges' brassy chief defense lawyer, Hod-carrier Schomaker (known on the waterfront as "Shoes") then proceeded to drop a full load of bricks on the pencil-nosed leader of the I.L.W.U...
...that he personally took up Bridges' party membership cards on two occasions and issued him new ones; he often saw Bridges pay party dues. He told of meetings between Bridges and party officials, and testified that the Communists were in complete control of the bloody 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, with Bridges taking orders from Sam Darcy, California Communist boss at the time...