European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is Iii politics continued from Page 29 several of the windows and the main Entrance Are boarded visitors Are advised to step cautiously to avoid tripping Over the tin cans placed at strategic Points through out the House to catch the drippings from the leaking sub freezing temperatures ruined one of the huge grand pianos in the music Salon and through the Winter Gieseking practice on a Small up right tucked into a Corner of the one warm room in the during his professional he taught two Young jewish students who had been liberated from a concentration Camp at the end of the several Amer ican soldiers came to the pianist for pointers in almost any Fine except when Hes out keeping a concert or radio Gieseking can be in a pair of old plus fours and a shaggy  Tweed jacket pruning his Cherry Trees or digging in the unlike most piano artists oversold Otious about their the muscular hands of the great Gieseking get no special Walter Gieseking is his own Handy chopping Wood shovelling Snow during the Winter months and tending his Garden in the Spring and his music room is cluttered with manuscripts and books in four Lan paintings in the school of the modern expressly frowned on by the Hitler adorn the his Library is stocked with Thomas Dos passes and French and italian be reads and Speaks French and italians fluently As his native Ger Man and says he can read reviews of Bis recitals in eight he has a phenomenal memory for music and commits to memory a composition after having played it recently he performed a Rachmaninoff etude for the first did he practice it Dubensky asked his wife in route to the she about five minutes tins and the other Dubensky won not at concert audiences sometimes mistake Gle Ekings Deadpan expression for he has a habit of dropping his lower jaw in concentration which gives him an air of he snorts daring Fortis Simo passages and glares at the keys in the delicate his ability to pay no heed to extraneous Circum stances during a concert is once in a huge German Shepherd dog wandered Down the Middle aisle and leaped to the sitting on its haunches with Backoo audience the dog watched the pianist until bored and then walked an other time in new a Kitten scurried out from amusing itself leaping Over the great pianists feet and untying his shoe strings Dur ing the slow movement of the Beethoven Moonlight off the slow moving Gieseking is cent for a Mon like tonsure of Snow Gieseking would almost rather talk about his ten thousand Butterfly specimens or the mountains he has climbed in North America and Europe rather than piano came naturally to the four born in Leonand brought up on the French the son of a German professor of he simply walked Over to a piano and began to in at the age of he was enrolled in the Hannover municipal conservatory to study under Karl one of the greatest instructors of piano technique in three years later he appeared in his first Public his career was halted for two Yean during War but in 1920 ills name appeared on concert handbills in in America where he eleven Tours and reaped a Quarter of a million he was called the greatest interpreter of Beethoven and Brahms piano French music lovers braved his Ravel and while the British hailed his Mozart concert in he was famous for his interpretation of to the Chagrin of the Gieseking neighbors in wies Badens once fashionable Nero erg the strains of music issuing from his Home Are not always those of the old Herr pm Fessor is at to they Are Likely to out of their sleep by the Din of Amer ican what to but Bury ones head in a Feather bed and wait until the intimate friends of the great is say that the same piece which raises so much havoc with his neigh Bors rest is the most sensational Gieseking interpretation of americans might recognize the tune As Vin cent Youmans i want to be a hit of the Early but Giese King version would do credit 4o a Harp the Maestro pounds it out double using his left foot to play the Bass no More difficult than the Amer ican business mans trick of putting his feet on the he unfortunately for Gieseking i want to be Happy will probably never find its Way to the concert stage but will remain the Gie Seidig Signa Ture for signing off a Gay known mines and the wrecks of innumerable vessels of All our commercial Fleet had been taken Over by the Bremen has been cleaned up to a remarkable we can if 80 per cent of our prewar average although the lowest estimates of bomb damage ran close to but in spite of this Success the living conditions and Overall destruction of the port was such that no refugees or exp Ellees were assigned to this i would like to Point out that Bremen accrued no advantage in the food ration through her position As a port the Dock workers Are Given one hot meal a but losses of food cargoes have been running a Little less than 5 per cent spoiled not fit for human Are Given to Farmers i the Bremen area for animal Bremen butter and eggs Are supplied from the British zone her other food requirements Are allocated by the by zonal food and agriculture Board now located at Stuttgart two years later from Page weekends cover German Council of As a major step toward the solution of Many Wurttemberge Baden this state is sandwiched in Between Bava Ria and Hesse and the close cooperation with these other effected by the monthly meetings of the min ister president in has been a great Benefit to Bhamra Bremen problems do not too closely parallel those of the other except for the common prob Lem arising out of War we were faced with a port which was More than 50 per cent and with a Harbor filled with at least 110 marching under the Amer ican Flag and the wac colors Are Geraldine sgt Doris Emma Gilliland and Frances photograph by week ends Hans for the Story of the turn to pages and big City station Rooming House