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...than 16 German bidders tried to buy the paper, including one who was a close friend of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. But the British were choosy. Last week they found a buyer who suited them. For an estimated $1,000,000 the High Commissioner recommended sale of Die Welt to Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer, who would thereby become the biggest publisher on the continent with control of about 15% of the circulation of West Germany's press...
...husky Axel Springer now owns a string of two newspapers and three magazines, which worries some Germans about his potential political power. This does not worry Springer. Christian Democrats have called him a "pink" Socialist, and the Socialists accuse him of having Christian Democratic tendencies. Grins Springer: "Doesn't that prove independence...
...moment later, on the 120th anniversary of Belgium's birth as a nation, Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave, Duke of Brabant, Count of Hainaut and fifth King of the Belgians, sat on his throne for the first time...
Several folk dance groups will gather for demonstration purposes, among them the Swedish Folk Dance Club of Boston under the direction of Axel Spongberg. An Armenian dance group will also give an exhibition of native terpsichore, followed by the unusual dances of old Poland by the Krakowianki Dance Group of Boston...
...this started with us trying to run the world," complained a hops merchant in Yakima Valley. "We started out with loans to the British Isles, now we got loans out everywhere. And what do we bring home? We bring home corpses, and I'm damned mad." Axel Nielsen, a used-car dealer, canvassed southern Michigan with petitions to the President which said: "Bring our boys and war goods back to American soil and let the other countries, one & all, paddle their own canoe . . ." Housewife Kathleen McLeese of Kansas City said: "If I were a soldier, I'd rather...