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...Polizei hat es verboten, im Flusse zu schwimmen...
...gefachrlich, hier ueber die Strasse zu gehen...
Wasted Whiskers. There is again much of the old nostalgia. Back on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Golden recalls, the old folks would mutter, "A klug zu Columbus'n" whenever a boy got a bloody nose or the steam was not hot enough in the Turkish baths. Rough translation: "Columbus should have broken his head before he discovered America." But there were consolations. "For 2^ plain" a lad could buy a large glass of clear Seltzer. Flavoring cost a penny more, but sometimes he could persuade the counterman to "put a little on the top" for nothing. Jewish...
...parks of Hamburg (a respiratory ailment kept him out of military service), decided that the traditionally dark, hearty brew of German journalism needed a bit of tang and a fleck of foam. He founded his empire in 1946 on the radio weekly Hör zu! (Listen), is now sole owner of three magazines (and one-third owner of two more), ranging from the gossipy Das Nvue Blatt to the Scientific Kristall, three Hamburg dailies, including the busty, bustling Bild-Zeitung (circ. 3,269,164-West Germany's largest) and the influential, intellectual Die Welt (circ...
Hateful Word. The son of an obscure Hamburg book publisher, Publisher Springer sat out World War II with a respiratory ailment and at war's end was among the first Germans to win an Allied license to start a magazine. With profits from Hör zu! he launched Hamburger Abendblatt, his first daily, in 1948, and five years later won out over 16 other bidders when the British decided to sell their occupation paper Die Welt (for an estimated...