Word: westrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westrick's address is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. TIME tried to describe the line in which he was interested...
Nazi Agent. The job assigned Reporter Racusin was to investigate Gerhardt Alois Westrick, suave German lawyer who once represented many U. S. firms in Germany and who went to the U. S. last April in a new role (officially commercial counselor to the German Embassy), to preach Nazi trade propaganda to his U. S. business friends (TIME, July...
Rack went to the Waldorf-Astoria where Dr. Westrick had a three-room suite. There he discovered that Dr. Westrick rarely used it, kept it simply as an office in charge of a handsome young German woman, Baroness Irmingard von Wagenheim. So Rack tried to learn where most of Dr. Westrick's phone calls came from, found that they were coming from a telephone in Scarsdale, N. Y. Up went Rack to suburban Scarsdale and did some more undercover work...
...took down license numbers of cars that called at the house where Dr. Westrick lived with his wife and children, looked up their owners, bit by bit pieced together Dr. Westrick's movements-and incidentally a lot of miscellaneous information about Dr. Westrick's guests. One day last week the Herald Tribune broke Rack's story. According to Sleuth Racusin, since May Dr. Westrick...
Sign of the G. Mystified was Reporter Racusin by an enigmatic white placard bearing the letter G which hung at intervals from a window in Dr. Westrick's house. Early-morning editions of the Herald Tribune that day ran a picture of the house (see cut) with a white circle around the placard and a close-up showing the G enlarged. In later editions the close-up disappeared (along with Newsman Racusin's references to it), but the circle remained. In final editions the circle too was gone...