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...Trapp, when you realized that Michael Weisser lived in your town of Lincoln, Neb., you started trying to intimidate him. What were you hoping to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cantor and the Klansman: WEISSER, TRAPP | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Lower Bavaria in the southeast remains largely undiscovered. A lovely old city where the Danube, Ilz and Inn rivers come together, is Passau, a 2½-hour drive from Munich. At the comfortable Weisser Hase a double room with breakfast is $43. Seventy miles up the Danube is Regensburg, Bavaria's first capital, where parts of the Roman wall still stand. The Regensburger Domspatzen (Sparrows of the Cathedral) are considered by many to be the equal of the Vienna Choir Boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Europe: Off the Beaten Track | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Jimmy Booth and Max figure prominently in Billy's prison years as companions and co-conspirators, but it is another prisoner who most directly affects Billy in his struggle with identity. Parker and Stone have deliberately downplayed Billy's homosexual affair with the Swedish prisoner Erich (Norbert Weisser), presumably to make Billy as sympathetic a character as possible to straight audiences. This is one of several distortions of Billly Hayes' true story that have prompted some criticism of the film, objections that are justified to a certain extent. In all fairness to the movie, however, the relationship between Erich...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Busted at the Border | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

...laws mobilized 80,000,000 Germans behind the Army. In a series of drastic decrees, death by hanging was ordered for saboteurs, pillagers, arsonists, profiteers and loafers. Before officials could get the gallows up, one Johann Heinin was shot in Dessau for sabotage and in Stammheim Herman Weisser was beheaded for stealing shell parts. Income taxes were upped by 50%, taxes on beer and tobacco by 20%. The tax on radios was made practically confiscatory and the death penalty ordered for those caught listening to foreign broadcasts. Public dancing was prohibited as incompatible with the spirit of the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Consolidated Sausage | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

HARVARD '35 BROWN '35 Whitbeck, No. 1 No. 1, Cluthe Ingalls, No. 2 No. 2, Eddy Baughman, No. 3 No. 3, Greason Rodman, No. 4 No. 4, Weisser Jarrell, No. 5 No. 5, Farrell Wilkinson, No. 6 No. 6, Wallace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1935 AND JAYVEE NETMEN TO PLAY | 4/27/1932 | See Source »

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