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...word of mouth. Vegetable and flower sellers, arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...
...unsatisfactory, moved again Jan. 12 but each time I moved boxes of TIME magazines, even the move men complained, says "what on earth are in these boxes?" But I am keeping them hoping someday he will return. Now my 18-year-old son, a student in chemistry at Wittenberg College, takes it and keeps his copies...
...which it achieved a unique place in U. S. journalism, the Literary Digest last week was taken over by TIME, thus ceasing to exist as a separate publication. First issue of the Literary Digest appeared on March 1, 1890. Its publishers, Isaac Kauffman Funk & Adam Willis Wagnalls, classmates at Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio) and ordained Lutheran ministers, conceived the magazine as "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world.'' In 1905 this formula was extended to include newspaper comment on the news...
...officers' club in the early days of the Hitler regime. There burly Schutzstaffel would show off their blonde, elegant ladies. Alois' little café prospered to such an extent that last week he opened a showy modern restaurant, the Alois Tearoom, at No. 3 Wittenberg-Platz, near Berlin's fashionable west end. "I call my place the Alois because I do not want to advertise with the name," Alois admitted, but three large profiles of the Führer hang on the walls inside...
...Durham would accept. Oxford, which is currently campaigning for a $5,000,000 endowment, tried to decide which course would offend fewer contributors, finally refused. Reaching the U. S., the invitation to send a delegate was promptly accepted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haverford, Ohio State, University of Alabama, Wittenberg College, University of Idaho. It was promptly refused by Dartmouth, Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Universities of Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and the College of the City of New York. Princeton, which like Gottingen was chartered by George II, Elector of Hanover and King of England, joined Yale in deciding...