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Died. George Wilhelm Pabst, 82, one of Germany's early greats of movie directing, best remembered for 1925's Street Without Joy, a grindingly realistic study of post World War I Vienna with a then unknown actress named Greta Garbo, 1925's Secrets of a Soul, the first film on psychoanalysis, and 1931's movie version of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera; of coronary embolism; in Vienna...
Simplicissimus, often shortened familiarly to Simpl, is the honored name of Germany's world-famous satirical magazine. Before World War I, it dabbed acid fun at Kaiser Wilhelm II, and for its lese majesty was frequently banned. It took on new teeth in the 1920s just in time to start potshotting at the rise of Nazism. One Simpl view of Hitler showed the top of his head lifted up to reveal a void within. "Isn't it strange," remarked the magazine, "that you can make such a lot of trouble with so little stuff?" It was not strange...
Strength from the Lord. Their hopes were bluntly disappointed. Addressing the opening session of the East German synod, Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm Krum-macher of Greifswald warned: "If Christians, who are limbs of the one Lord, and who belong together as limbs of one church, are no longer allowed to be mentioned in one breath, it is no longer an institutional question but a matter of the unity of faith in one Lord...
...clue be found in the bullpens? Hoyt Wilhelm is the only dependable reliever. Remember Barney Schultz. Larry Sherry, Luis Arroyo, Dick Radatz . . . few firemen are big for more than two years...
...Americans have Kaiser Wilhelm to thank for the Virgin Islands. Though U.S. Presidents had tried for 52 years to acquire the strategic Caribbean vantage points, it was not until Denmark-which controlled them for over two centuries-was threatened by the Germans in World War I that the Danes agreed to transfer the islands to U.S. custody. On March 31, 1917, the U.S. took title to its new possession for the fire-sale price of $25 million, paid in nearly 48 tons of gold bullion...