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...bird he was after was not Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann, but one Gottfried Sandstede, who was officially listed as head of the Embassy's press office. Investigator Damonte had good reason to suspect that he was head of Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo in Argentina, that the Ambassador himself took orders from Gottfried Sandstede. His name was on a list of 36 Germans wanted for questioning, but Gottfried Sandstede claimed diplomatic immunity...
Harvard Club of San Francisco; Clyde D. Bird Jr., Oakland, Calif...
Chief Terrorist was beak-nosed General Heinrich von Stulpnagel, German commander of Occupied France, ably and professionally supported by veteran French and Nazi police. Early-bird Parisians were puzzled by public notices announcing tem porary closing of the quartier's important subway stations. The entire Xle Arron dissement was surrounded by German troops. They began arresting people whole sale. The victims were supposed to be Jews, but this was not the Jewish district of Paris. In a house-to-house, room-by-room roundup, soldiers seized every "Jew" aged 17 to 50, bundled 6,000 off to nearby concentration...
...Antonio's Charles H. Poulton, 41 : the national all-gauge skeet championship; outshooting 28-year-old Alex Kerr of California in a 175-bird shoot-off, after each had broken 250 straight in the regular event; at Indianapolis...
...Cott quotes a fellow naturalist: "In . . . Tanganyika a small moth resembling a bird-dropping was not uncommon. On one occasion I observed what I thought to be one on a leaf, but after a close examination from a distance of only a few inches I discovered (to my own satisfaction) that it was after all only a bird-dropping. Just as I turned away the said bird-dropping flew...