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...Barbara Sehr, 57, a technical writer from Seattle, enrolled in her first comedy class in January, then joined a local group of 45 female comics called the Ha Ha Sisterhood. Political humor is what draws her to two to four open-mike nights a week and one paid appearance a month. "It's hard being a woman in this world today," goes one of her routines. "Even the president of Harvard says women are just not equipped to do mathematics. Can you believe that? A recent poll says 30% of women believe Mr. Summers is all wrong. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's Funny | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...ever dared to suggest openly that a product's quality was really not always wunderbar. Then along came Journalist Waldemar Schweitzer with a brand-new brand-conscious magazine called DM (for Deutsche Mark). DM tested and graded consumer goods for design and durability, published ratings ranging from sehr empfehlenswert (highly recommendable) down to a damning nicht empfehlenswert. DM's circulation has soared to 360,000 copies weekly, and its initial debt of $250,000 has long since been paid off. But DM has also been socked with 60 court actions by irate manufacturers seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Necessary Rumpus | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Konrad Adenauer, in his own tongue, has issued the following statement: "Es freut mich sehr Ihnen zum Geburtstag Glueck zu wuenschen," adding, "Ninety is much too young to quit." His Majesty King Gustav Adolf VI, providing for the time lag, writes "God morgon! God afton! God natt! Ingen orsak." And Carl Sandburg, who is only eighty-five, comments that "You have completed your Prairie Years. On to the War Years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Birthday | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...fact found only one man who is culturally aware (he is, I think, one of the Schmidts). Herr Schmidt has written a book Ueber den Untergang der Weltl, he announces with pride. But Schmidt is resolutely cold-shouldered by average-man Steinhauer, who remarks (witheringly) "So? Das ist ja sehr interessant...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: The Germans | 11/15/1961 | See Source »

...NANCY SEHR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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