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Last week Vintner Korn was in jail in Wiesbaden awaiting trial. If convicted of fraud, he faces up to ten years at hard labor. To German winegrowers, the law-if anything-is too lenient. At their annual convention at Wiirzburg, they denounced Korn's alchemy as "Schweinerei" (swinishness), demanded harsher penalties against "gottverdammte Weinpanscher und Weinfaelscher" (wine waterers and wine phoniers). They fret that if Korn's secret is revealed in detail at the trial, the publicity may encourage others to follow his example. Said a Bonn barkeep: "If it's that easy to make good Niersteiner...
...lensky) is having a spirited revival that has brought a round of exhibits in Germany, London and Paris, and a current show at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries (see color page). Chief reason: the release of nearly 100 Jawlensky paintings, by his 75-year-old widow, who lives in Wiesbaden. The new showings have placed Jawlensky with Kandinsky and Chagall among the best of Russia's 20th century painters...
...Beautiful One Has Come") is the museum's most popular treasure, along with Rembrandt s Man with a Golden Helmet, and she has been away a long time. Cached for safekeeping in a salt mine during World War II, she was found by U.S. troops and warehoused in Wiesbaden. Not until this summer was Nefertete wrapped in tissue paper, put in a nest of boxes filled with ground cork and gingerly brought back to her air-conditioned glass case m the museum...
From Guns to Eggs. Massachusetts-born, Bob McLane studied at Babson Institute before he went off to World War II, fought across The Netherlands, returned to Europe after the war as a military government clerk in Wiesbaden. On a trip home in 1949 McLane first ran afoul of the law. U.S. customs officials arrested him in Boston for bringing in an undeclared diamond ring, got him convicted in Federal Court and fined $500. ; Back in Europe that year McLane took leave from his military government post to visit wartime Dutch friends who ran a wholesale food business, got the idea...
...Wiesbaden, Major Cox decided on the basis of preliminary evidence that Rodney and Charles were, indeed, identical twins. (He will not be positive until the grafts have been given enough time to take. Normally, because the skins of different individuals have biological differences, grafts from one person to another wither and disappear within 30 to 60 days, although they have temporary value as a protective covering.) The twins were wheeled into separate operating rooms. Surgeons took from Charles' thighs and lower legs twelve strips two in. wide, 12 to 14 in. long and thirteen-thousandths of an inch thick...