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...idea of basing a Free Germany on captured German officers and soldiers has been credited to Communist Author Erich Weinert, a bushy-maned Berliner who fought with the International Brigade in Spain, fled from the Gestapo to Russia. He is said to have written a memo to Stalin, who approved...
...Including: Erich Weinert, anti-Nazi poet (President); Major Karl Hetz (first Vice President); Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great grandson of Bismarck (second Vice President); Wilhelm Pieck, onetime leader of the Communist bloc in the Reichstag, 29 other less important Germans...
Wills vs. Weinert. The faces of betrayed men and of women who have died by violence wear, almost invariably, the same expression-one of weariness. That was the look upon the face of Charles Weinert, once known as the Newark Adonis, as he stretched out his gloves to touch those of black Harry Wills. That was the look upon his face a few minutes later, when he was helped to his corner, vomiting dreadfully, after having been knocked out in the second round of a bout which proved 1) that Wills is still the foremost challenger for Dempsey...
Bull rights, once popular in the U. S., are moribund. The one available bull, swart Firpo, shares the destiny of the old grey mare. Last week, in Newark, one Charles Weinert, seasoned ring roue, was given his fling at the once-wild Argentinian, and in twelve rounds caused his victim even more discomfort than did Heavyweight Champion Dempsey one summer night last year, than did big black Harry Wills two months ago. Dempsey was mercifully swift with the coup de gráce. Weinert, less forceful but imaginatively brutal, subjected the glowering, laborious, fat-ridden Firpo to nearly an hour...
...Weinert, who entered the ring 24 pounds lighter than his hirsute antagonist, made the mistake (in the first round) of goading Firpo with a clever left. Cleverness is just what Firpo detests. Bull-like, Firpo favors charging. He charged, and floored Weinert. He floored him thrice again. He then knocked Weinert out. Inexpensive training was vindicated...