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...secret headquarters in downtown Stockholm. Working by flashlight, they photo graphed documents, photos, anti-Semitic tracts, Nazi flags, busts of Hitler, small arms. On one visit they were startled by what sounded like a footstep. They bolted for the piano in the office, started banging out the Nazi Horst Wessel song and singing lustily. But the noise turned out to be the minute hand of a big clock, which had stuck momentarily, then was released with a thump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: The F | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...students, professors and administrators trying to pick their way through the thickets of academe. The problem is especially acute at Tufts and other schools trying hard to make the academic big time, such as Emory, Western Reserve, Rochester and Tulane. Says the ambitious, respected president of Tufts, Nils Y. Wessel, "We are a threshold university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Threshold of What? | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...decade endowment has more than doubled and plant value multiplied more than five times-is in the race for top scholars who can attract millions in federal or foundation research grants, thus increasing the fund of knowledge while managing to keep themselves and the campus affluent, happy and famous. Wessel insists that he will not sacrifice good teaching to good research but will keep on seeking that rare academic bird known as the "teacher-scholar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Threshold of What? | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

Choruses of "Pop Goes the Wessel," "Coming Through the Rye," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," and several varieties of the Twist ushered the acts into the areas, where they received the shouts of "Take it off." (Or, in the case of one rather hefty near-middle-aged stripper, "Put it back...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Boston Burlesque Dies With the Closing of the Casino | 5/7/1962 | See Source »

Prosecutor Wessel's strategy was to prove that the hoods had not told the truth, that their statements to police did not jibe with demonstrable facts and sworn testimony, and that in their similarity they clearly proved a conspiracy to thwart the law in a reasonable inquiry. In the early afternoon of Nov. 14, 1957, he contended, the racketeers spotted police around Barbara's place and promptly put together their common alibi; each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from as far away as Los Angeles or Dallas or Cleveland) and just happened to drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Apalachin Conspiracy | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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