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...Publisher William Block and Editor Andrew Bernhard were dead set to make the Post-Gazette one of the two, if that was the way it had to be. Young (33), Yale-educated Bill Block inherited the paper from his father, the late Paul Block, in 1941.* He has been trying to cut its ties to the Republican Party and make it an "independent" paper ever since. Bernhard is a calm, competent veteran who came up the hard...
Stranded and broke in Paris after World War I, Bernhard got his first newspaper job on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, after a period as a tourist guide. Later he was city editor of the Detroit Free Press, moved on to become managing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and five years ago went to Pittsburgh. Since then, the P-G has picked up 50,000 in circulation to hit a top of 300,000, has handily held its position as Pittsburgh's biggest daily. For his Sunday paper, Andy Bernhard has already signed up a new staff...
Just behind Fischer in the new police setup was the minister of the interior of Brandenburg Province, Bernhard Bechler. Still in his 40's (and a former major in the Nazi Eighth army at Stalingrad), Bechler was as yet little known outside Berlin; but Berliners had begun to call him "the new Himmler." Talking with fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action...
Bechler's private life reads like the plot of a bad novel. After the Russians captured him at Stalingrad, he consented to go on the Moscow radio. Neighbors brought the good news to Frau Bechler: Bernhard was alive. Frau Bechler promptly denounced the neighbors to the Gestapo-for listening to the enemy radio...
...Bryn Mawr alumna would buy tickets for a lecture on economics by the late John Maynard Keynes and would go in much the same spirit as Juliana went to hear Churchill. Just as the Bryn Mawr alumna would bring her husband, so Juliana brought Bernhard. He sat there looking as if he would rather be at a country club, but had been almost reconciled to the educational occasion...