Sisters Reunite After Nazi Terror Survival
Magda Hirsch and Blanka Baumgarten, sisters who escaped Auschwitz in 1944, met at Dearborn Street Station in Chicago after a 1948 exile from Czechoslovakia. Their father mother and three younger siblings perished in the Nazi regime. the sisters and their families arrived together from New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour M. Hersh
Chicago
Magda Hirsch
New York
Blanka Baumgarten
Mrs. Hirsch
Czechoslovakia
Auschwitz
Dearborn Street
Fehergymaty
Hungary
Magda
Blanka
Hirsch
Max
Martha
Thomas
Zoltan
Eva
Tomas
Trout Mudd In Dry Run For Convention
CBS previews its new convention anchors Robert Trout and Roger Mudd during a Sunday break-in from Atlantic City. The duo, succeeding Walter Cronkite, preside over a news program while Humphrey dominates network coverage with interviews and previews as the Democratic National Convention opens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cynthia Lowry
Hollywood
CBS
Robert Trout
Roger Mudd
Trout
Walter Cronkite
Mudd
Atlantic City Boardwalk
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
ABC
Meet the Press
Wisconsin Girl Drowns in Cross River and Man Found in Lake
A 15 year old Wisconsin girl Kathleen Strenzel drowned after falling into the Cross River at Schroeder where she was swept over a 75 foot waterfall and body found in Lake Superior. Ernest Hell of Fargo North Dakota was recovered from Big Toad Lake after his boat was found adrift nearby. An autopsy was planned for Curtis Lyons, former editor of the Petersburg Progress-Index, who died after two months illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet Eisvold
St. Olaf College
Morris
Minn
Minneapolis
Paul
Susan
Elton Dybland
Maynard
Renville
Glenn Ward
Westbrook
Mathew G. Taylor
St. Paul
Edith Bales
St. Boniface
Man
Fred Wolff
Wauban
Minnesota
Kenneth Mattson
Mahnomen
Associated Press
Wisconsin
Kathleen Strenz
Rhinelander
Wis
Cross River
Schroeder
Lake Superior
Cook County
Roger A. MacDonald
Grand Marais
Petersburg
Hell
Curtis Lyons
Exheart
Moscow Beer Shortage Sparks Call for More Stores
The MOSCOW dispatch reports a beer shortage with four breweries producing too little and beverages sold at 9,500 outlets yet only 92 stores selling beer plus 105 beer wagons. The Mos kovskaya Pravda urges 300 to 400 additional beer stockists to ease the deficit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Moskovskaya Pravda
Basilisk Lizard Dashes Across Streams in Sudden Bouts
A small South American basilisk lizard moves along stream surfaces in a semi upright posture, propelled by rapid hind limb strokes allowing brief dashes across water areas.
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George J. Nekola
Liberty
Thomas Burns
Vine St
Main ST
Lacrosse, Wis
Father
Minesota
Max Kochevar Jr
White Plains
N.Y
Jorgenson
Jerrell LeRoy Jorgenson
Duluth
Cyril Smith
St. Louis County
Max Jr
Robert
Judith Rochevar
Superior
Aurora
Jacqueline
Jorgensons
Norman Jorgenson
Goodridge
Shakopee
Harland W. Upton
Upton
Glad Tidings Assembly of God
Max Rochevar
Lake Mining Co
Max Rochevar Sr
Air Force
Gopher River
Olorado
CTS
Elbertas
SL Aea
St Agriculture Products Sect
State Services Bldg
Denver
Colo
Berlin
U.S
John F. Franklin
Franklin
James H. Polk
U.S. 5Th Corps
West Germany
Tokyo
China
United Nations
United States
Mexico City
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
Sacred College of Cardinals
Mexico
Speedy Lizard
Westinghouse School
Westinghouse
la Crosse
Clark-Bracken Sales & Service
DIAL
Women’s Dept
Alligator
Bodega
Arenz
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