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That evening in Berlin, Otto John sought out strange company for one who was head of the Bonn FBI. He drove to the apartment-office of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, a busy, prosperous gynecologist who plays a hot trumpet, shares John's interest in woman-chasing, and is known to be a Communist. Sometime that evening, Wohlgemuth sat down at his desk and wrote a note: "The fact is that Dr. John will not return to the Western sector." Then they left together. Curiously enough, John left behind him in his hotel room a notebook that would have been useful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Man with 1,000 Secrets | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Hope Bay between Bristol and Ports mouth, R. I. Before the bridge was completed the cables inexplicably began to fray. The bridge was dismantled and rebuilt with galvanized cold-drawn steel wires. After yanking and bending in every which way the wires which failed, W.H. Swanger and G. F. Wohlgemuth of the U. S. Bureau of Standards learned that something had happened on the bridge which no tester had ever thought of reproducing in the laboratory. On the wires were tiny lumps of zinc put there by the galvanizing process. Where the cables rubbed against iron supports of the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Testers | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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