Word: werners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MATTER OF CONSCIENCE (312 pp.)-Werner Bergengruen-Thames & Hudson...
...Walled City. German Novelist Werner Bergengruen began writing A Matter of Conscience in 1929. By 1935, when the book was published, all Germany had become a kind of Cassano. But to Bergengruen's surprise, even the Nazi press praised A Matter of Conscience as "the Fiihrer novel of Renaissance times." Their mistake was probably not much greater than that of its readers who took the book as a sly but calculated assault on Hitlerism (500,000 copies have been sold on the Continent). The Grand Prince of this first of Bergengruen's 60 books to be published...
Lessons I to 6. In Giessen, Germany, Firemen R. Bornschein, Werner Schepp and Helmut Glund were sentenced to four months for arson after admitting that they set fire to six straw piles "to show the new fire chief what it means to be a fireman...
Bruno Beiersdorf, 13, and his friend, Werner Breitschopp, were carefully reared schoolboys. "We are poor," said Bruno's mother, "but we've always tried to give our boy the best. Above all, we watch out that he doesn't read any Kriminalschmöker [dime detective novels...
Last week Bruno and Werner turned up as the unexpected heroes of a real-life Kriminalschmöker. The boys were hovering near Munich's main railway station, hoping to pick up some pocket money for washing car windows, when the villain of the piece sidled up to them. "Want to earn some money?" he murmured. "Mail this package for me. I'm in a hurry." He handed them a heavy parcel and three marks. Three marks (70?) was big money for such an errand...