Word: wiesbadener
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...center parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) lost heavily to the rightists. Two explanations were offered. In Frankfurt, Metalworker Gustav Schmidt explained: "The city is full of people who have fled from the Soviet zone. After talking with them, I voted as far right as I could get." Said a Wiesbaden Hausfrau: "We are fed up with socialization. We know that it means bureaucracy. Our reconstruction would have moved much faster if it had not been snarled up by all this officialdom. Let the businessmen have a chance...
...Wiesbaden, Germany, a refugee from Silesia declared that she had been living next door to Adolf Hitler in Liegnitz- on President Roosevelt Strasse. (Skeptical military government officials said that it was Russia's problem.) "He has a triangular mustache now," said the woman, "and he grows sideburns ... He is living with a small, dark woman . . . He has formed a new party-the T.P.Z. I don't know what it stands...
Died. Wilhelm von Opel, 76, Germany's gruff, free-heiling mass-producer of autos; in Wiesbaden, Germany. He inherited his father's bicycle factory in the '90s, turned out his first all-German car in 1902, produced about a million with the help of Ford's assembly-line techniques, which he admittedly "stole with my eyes" during a visit to Detroit...
...German salt mine. After being on show for a month in Washington, the 202 paintings will be returned to Germany-but not to Berlin, for fear that the Russians might grab them, as they grabbed the treasures of the Zwinger in Dresden. Instead, they will probably go to Wiesbaden and Munich, in the U.S. zone...
...although moved by such an experience, one can't overlook the presence of the upper classes in Germany; Americans like their music better when they can sit with a cigarette in one hand and a highball in the other. When I heard Walter Gieseking in Wiesbaden he was in the act of prostituting himself before such an audience. After ham-fisting his way through Debussey, he concluded (either as a culmination of his own bad taste or a reprimand to that of his listeners) with a beer garden style arrangement of Strauss waltz themes...