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Stuttgart Salesman Wilhelm Boger, 57, onetime chief of the Auschwitz intelligence system, boasted that the place had the lowest escape rate of any Nazi concentration camp. Boger was the inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick...
...years there he developed into the finest organist of his time. In Weimar he wrote some of his most glorious music: the "Great" Preludes and Fugues in A Minor and C Minor, the C Major and F Major Toccatas and Fugues. Required by his contract as concertmaster to Duke Wilhelm Ernst to turn out "one new piece monthly," he produced 19 cantatas in three years, a deadline-crowding achievement that attuned him to his tenure in Leipzig, where he composed something like 265 cantatas in 21 years...
...ceilings brood over a splendor of blue marble columns, blackamoor statuary, yellow silk furniture, and sepia photographs of ancestors. Every other weekend there is a golf match or a shoot in woods that have recently been restocked with pheasant. The parties at Ferrières, which once awed Kaiser Wilhelm, now hum to brittle conversation and shine with the high fashion of an international society that mixes people of achievement with outsiders of the jet set. Guests have included French Premier Georges Pompidou (who was director general of de Rothschild Frères under his good friend Guy until...
Prized Order. Of Sweden's 30 steelmakers, two dominate the stainless blade market. One is Sandvik Steel Works, a $100 million-a-year company that sells more than half of the world's regular razor-blade steel. Its far-traveling president, Engineer Wilhelm Haglund, 60, made several flying trips to Boston in the past year to win the prized order to become Gillette's prime supplier for stainless...
...tremendous demand began a year ago, after Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. brought out a blade coated with silicon plastic to make it smooth as well as sharp.* Wilkinson's steel comes from Uddeholm, which also supplies American Safety Razor and Schick. Under its research-minded president, Wilhelm Ekman, 51, Uddeholm has quadrupled its stainless blade output since 1961, now produces 80% to 90% of Sweden's stainless blade steel, and has annual sales of $109 million...