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...built in all Manhattan since the end of World War II. Today Manhattan is in the midst of the biggest apartment-building boom in its history. But high prices since the war have tempted most builders into cutting corners, cramping spaces, and scanting on wall thicknesses. Says Architect Bernard Guenther: "Nowadays, when the fellow upstairs rolls a pair of dice, you can tell when they come up seven." Ceilings are now a standard and skimpy eight feet, and it is a rare apartment that has a working fireplace. Complains Decorator Elizabeth Draper: "The rooms are so neutral: they have...
...HERBERT W. GUENTHER...
...defectors from East Germany turned up in Berlin with reports on the new doctrine of the East German army. Captain Guenther Malikowski, 32, a one time political officer with the First Motorized Rifle Division in Potsdam, said the theme of troop indoctrination is now a "justified war of liberation" against West Germany. East German troops are told they should have no compunction about killing fellow Germans if they are serving the "imperialist" cause...
This seemed true to the end. According to General Guenther Blumentritt, no admirer of Hitler, at least half the civilian population resented the officers' attempt on Hitler's life on June 20, 1944. Says Shirer: "National Socialism, notwithstanding the degradation it had brought to Germany and Europe, they still accepted and indeed supported, and in Adolf Hitler they still saw the country's saviour." But General Blumentritt's remark might be interpreted another way: that up to half of the civilian population had so much of Hitler or of war that they did not resent...
...Guenther C. Motz, the German Consul General in Boston, made the presentation on behalf of Germany's President Theodor Heuss. Motz cited Kuhn's publication of books, catalogues, and articles dealing with German art, and expressed his government's appreciation for the services rendered to cultural relations between the United States and Germany...