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...Manhattan, NBC's Bride & Groom, which marries one lucky couple on TV each weekday, found it had netted a tartar in Sigmund Welt, 24. Scheduled to be married last week to Josephine Buono, Sigmund rebelled when he discovered that his expense-paid honeymoon had to be spent at winterbound Princeton, N.J. He demanded Florida or California instead. Welt was bounced from the program and, minutes later, bounced again by his fiancee. After thinking things over until 5 a.m., Sigmund decided he just had to talk to Josephine. He broke into the basement of her Brooklyn home, stole up toward...
When the British decided to sell Die Welt, Hamburg's influential daily (present circ. 200,000) they had started at war's end, more than 16 German bidders tried to buy the paper, including one who was a close friend of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. But the British were choosy. Last week they found a buyer who suited them. For an estimated $1,000,000 the High Commissioner recommended sale of Die Welt to Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer, who would thereby become the biggest publisher on the continent with control of about 15% of the circulation of West...
Schine, another McCarthy aide, and they had come to investigate the U.S. Information Service in Europe. Hamburg's Die Welt promptly dubbed them Schnuffler (snoopers), a name that dogged them through Europe. But in USIS centers from Berlin to Belgrade, all work ceased when they appeared...
...that flaps and stings, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker raises the biggest welts when assisted by its enemies. Thanks to such help last week from an army that advanced too quickly and a general who retreated too easily-the Worker raised a big welt. It had smeared a Republican candidate for Congress right off the ballot. Brigadier General Elliott R. Thorpe (ret.), General MacArthur's wartime counter-intelligence chief) announced that he was "shocked and depressed," and as a result withdrew as a Republican candidate for Congress from Rhode Island...
...said, "that a German national in the position of ... Niemöller has chosen this moment to stab his government in the back." Protests exploded from other places. Said a spokesman for the Social Democrats, the fiercest opponents of German rearmament: "The pastor plays the Russian game." Snapped Welt der Arbeit, newspaper of the West German trade unions: "Niemöller seems to labor under illusions that he can convert Stalin...