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...fine and fat as it rolls off the tongue that, like a kitten or a May morning, it needs no meaning, but in fact it has two. It is the name of a light-sensitive fungus that grows on horse dung-"a rather bawdy little fungus," according to Jonathan Wolken, who met the word and the fungus while studying biology at Dartmouth a few years ago. Wolken also studied modern dance, in an unserious way, in the class of a young teacher named Alison Chase. When he and Classmate Moses Pendleton found, to their total astonishment, that the strange gymnastic...
...credible dancing fungus is still spreading. They are now on a tour in India. Trying to explain how it all happened, Wolken offers: "None of us had the dance background, and we didn't feel secure alone, so we developed a kind of linked moment." He thinks this over: "Or is that just an explanation that sounds right...
Some guards could not sleep well at night unless they had beaten someone to death during the day, recalled Dr. Otto Wolken, 60, an Austrian physician at Auschwitz. Calmly pointing out one defendant, Stephan Baretzki, Wolken explained how the guard organized "rabbit hunts." A prisoner would kneel down before Baretzki. At the order "Go, go," the inmate would scamper away on all fours. Then he was shot in the back. While the police dogs at Auschwitz slept in warm, clean kennels with concrete floors, humans were housed in filthy, crowded barracks where they lapped the muddy floor...
Squirming Bundles. Describing his pitifully equipped infirmary, Wolken told how he had tied an aspirin with a ribbon and a sign that said: "Prisoners with temperatures of less than 100° lick once, those with temperatures higher than 100° lick twice." Another prisoner-physician, Dr. Ella Lingens, saw squirming infants, which she at first thought were bundles of old clothing, thrown alive into the fires of the crematorium after the gassed bodies of their mothers. Another ex-inmate testified tearfully that this method of killing babies was ordered by the Nazis because there was a severe shortage...
Wedding March. In St. Louis, Bridesmaid Josephine Bobak fainted, whereupon Groom Nicholas Bobak fainted, Bride Helen Wolken fainted, Father Wempe called a recess...
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