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...would have known it!" cried joyful Ignatz Westenkirchner as he sailed on the Hamburg with his broad-beamed wife, their daughters Katherine and Johanna, and Ignatz Jr. "I read in the papers about the Putsch in 1923 when Hitler and Ludendorff tried to take over the Bavarian Government and I was real surprised. It was funny my old korps-bruder being such an important man. But he didn't forget me! "He was a brave and good soldier. I remember him well. He was a small man just about my own age. My own mustache -it's like...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
Dancing and entertainment will be continuous from 8 o'clock to 1 o'clock. The entertainment will include, among other things, a student quartet, rendering well-known airs; an old-time minstrel in Bavarian costume; a clever little six-year old danseuse performing an intricate tap-dance on a drum...
Lazarus Straus & sons entered Macy's through the basement, into which they moved their crockery in 1874. Grandsons of that shrewd Bavarian emigrant are now doing their "very prettiest to buy low and sell cheap"-always for cash only-and telling the world so in such a way that every other big Manhattan store would dearly love to see them gagged. For years their slogan was. "6% less than elsewhere." until harried by the Better Business Bureau to qualify it thus: "We endeavor (though we are not infallible) to sell our merchandise for at least 6% less than...
...when the New York Evening Post began to print his work, Westbrook Pegler was better known in Chicago than in the East. Since 1920 he has lived at Pound Ridge, Conn. Possibly because most of his neighbors have remodeled Colonial farmhouses, Pegler's is an adaptation of a Bavarian chalet. Slight, wiry, sandy-haired, he plays atrocious golf, drives his car like the coal man. Before their marriage his attractive wife was Julia Harpman, star crime reporter on the New York Daily News. His father, Arthur Pegler, is still the New York Daily Mirror's ablest rewrite...