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Died. Amelie Thyssen, 87, widow of German Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen and heiress, along with her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, to his giant Ruhr Valley coal and steel complex, which was confiscated by the Nazis when the Thyssens fled the Third Reich in 1939 and...
...newspaper, and advertising is scarce, papers were fighting a cut-throat war this week for scanty circulation and advertising revenue. It was too soon to tell which papers would survive. But one small democratic newspaper, Straubing's Niederbayrische Nachrichten, had already succumbed; it was driven out by the Straubinger Tage blatt, revived by Dr. Georg Huber, who had published it under the Nazis. Hard hit by six new competitors, another licensed paper had dropped 9,000 readers. New Score. Military Government offi cials hoped that the democratic press could weather the economic war, but the battles would be bitter...
U.S. Army Recruits Clarence R. Hill and George R. Jones had an ungovernable weakness for dice, whisky and buxom frauleins. After three years of service they held the Army's lowliest rank. When they returned to their company in December after their latest trip over the hill (the second...
Few if any Jews had been killed. Physical violence was on the wane, though for a few days, after the Reichstag election March 5. hundreds of Jews were beaten, Jewish homes raided. Conductor Bruno Walter was banned from the concert platform. Former Socialist Premier Braun of Prussia fled to Switzerland...