European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. Ill no. 22 june 26, 19 Jyh the Magazine of the stars and stripes editor Dick Jones associate editors Sterling lord Oliver Gregg Howard ,-.,Art director Vincent Sandoval production chief Steven r. J. Lakos assistant editors Daniel Parson Ralph l. Harwood John h. Powers Dorothy , Russell Grace Schmidt Maggi Claughton Arthur m. Brandel Irene h. Ulmer. Chief photographers Hans Hubman Michael Vaccar contributing editors " Germany William b. Lee Russell Jones Dorothy Gies , Julia Edwards Joseph Fleming. Werner prym. Win Kenning. France Gene Levin Richard Cohen John Sharnik. Italy Betty Luros. U. S. A William Stuyvesan lieutenant colonel William m. Summers editor in Chie articled a-. Finland s vote tests red strength. By Matti Hakkarainen 5 special feature Palestine Sketchbook. By Edgar Ainsworth 11 fiction. V v.  " Captain Helburn s fancy. 1. By Kurt Glaser 6 serial. ,., " / ". Trouble in Nevada part i of an eight part mystery by Jean sullivan.16 picture stories High wire to the u. A 2 vote promoters 4 International youth probes world s future a 8 currency Reform. 15 playtime gimmicks. 17 features j  / / picnic trials and tribulations. By Bill tinker 10. Crossword. By Charles Erlenkotter 23 sad sack. George Baker s cartoon 23 depart weits letters to the editor. 3 Over the weekend. A column by the editors those United states Stormy Days in the Black Hills. By Hal Boyle books. Notes and reviews movie review the big clock. A. S. Zone release. Movie guide. Films now showing Over the weekend 3 4 19 20 21 in our Story of sch Abing which has sometime been called the Greenwich Village of Munich bavarian Bohemia february 28we mentioned one of that area s leading citizens who is also one of Ger Many s Best known modern painters Bele Bachem and quoted her at some length on Why she preferred living there. Part of the explanation had to do with the personal Freedom enjoyed by Schwa Bing s residents and by Way of illustration she said or at least we said she said sch Abing was a place where one could Start off the Day with a slug of Cognac before breakfast if one Felt like it. It was t Long before a very irate and indignant miss Bachem informed us through intermediaries that the implication Sheds addicted to tipping in the Early morning hours or at any other time of Day for that matter is inaccurate unjust and without foundation. We managed to assure her that any such implication was farthest from our intentions and in the process of getting her to accept our apologies we also managed to get her to accept an assignment illustrations for Kurt Glaser s Captain Helburn s fancy Page 6. Thin shave worked out so Well that some of the hired hands have suggested we do a series of article about Picasso Matisse and other contemporary european artists taking care to imply they approve of before breakfast aperitifs in the Hope we can get them to do illustrations for us. While we re on the subject of illustrators Edgar Ainsworth whose drawings of the holy land you la find beginning on Page 11 Palestine Sketchbook is another artist of considerable repute. He is regularly included in England s Royal Academy exhibitions and currently has two works on View there. Ainsworth does t live in Soho however it Bele Bachem. Not before breakfast might be called London s sch Abi Gand we won to into the matter of his preferences for an Early morning Eye opener though we suspect it s Teacon fining ourself to certain factual information namely he s 42 years old married and has two children. Getting Back to Captain Helburn s fancy author Kurt Glaser spends his Daylight hours As organizational analyst in the civil administration division of Omegus in Berlin. A native of Ann Arbor Michigan he was brought up in Cambridge Massachusetts and spent his Summers on Cape cod where he Learned All about mermaids. He is theauthor of a number of heavy tomes on the subject of government and business administration published in the states and More recently one written in German  Fiir Eine demo Katie take our word for it it s about govern mental administration. On the lighter Side he has written aside Isom his Short stories a play and several pieces of vocal music based on Folk son themes. He reports that up to the present moment he has t been Able to persuade anyone other than himself to perform them. The author of Finland s vote tests re strength Page 5 is United press s Helsinki correspondent Matti Hakkarainen. After no Little re search we Are Able to report that he pronounces his name As if it were spelled Matty Hack a Rine in which May or May not make things any easier for you. Hal Boyle who roves the states for associated press and whose reports appear in weekend with almost As much regularity As Hans Hubman photographs turns up again this week in his usual spot those United states Page 4where he has recorded the current South Dakota scene in Stormy Days in the Black  weekend s  Model Monique Dessau holding something that seems to us to be the ultimate in silly female gadgets a plastic bathing suitcase. Out of it she s pulling you guessed it a bathing suit. For ourself in our swimming Days reused to a frequent swimming holes far enough removed from the Public gaze to make a suit unnecessary or b just  Damn thing in a Towel. For other similarly unnecessary gadgets Youcan turn to playtime gimmicks Page 17. Letter redeployment report sir. One of the first things that greeted me after i returned to the states via the . America was the Issue of weekend which contained a those United states article on the new York hotel situation room at the inn june 12. I know that this sort of thing is of much inter est to americans in the occupation zone but my own experience during the 15months i was there proved that there never was enough in weekend to pre. Pare the Reader for what the Usa is really like Down at the grass  first glance the states seemed about the same. As our taxicab bunted and honked its Way from the Dock to our hotel the Driver spouting a glib Newyork patois As he drove the Spires around Jne appeared a Little higher the canyons Between the Cliffs a Little deeper the autos streaming Down the canyons a Little More lethal but i chalked it All up to my quiet months i Europe. I d forgotten How hard it is to dress and undress in a Pullman lower the Way fresh strawberries taste and the intimate manner in which strangers talk to one in stations Railroad cars and doctors offices. But All of it my repatriation to stateside ways had a familiar note i d been Here  until i d been  or two in my Home town Small town Midwest Usa did i begin to notice any change. When i left the Home town folks were insulated in the belief that the troubled problems of the world had been settled Well everything except maybe in Fernal inflation and strikes. Nothing had heard from other americans who had made the trek Home before me seemed to give me any reason for think ing in Advance that this attitude had changed. I was prepared for More apathy and insularity. I Don t know about six months ago but i have been so fucked pleasantly by what seems to me to be a Fermen tation now taking place a change in attitude which could be labelled a International Outlook an attitude for which recent russian successes in Europe can possibly take the credit. Whatever the reason my neighbors Are different. True the first thing they ask me is. Aren t you glad to be Back they seem to think i have just escaped life of direst privation and danger. Once i have dodged this question they ask How Are things in Europe maybe they did t listen to the answer of other returnees a couple of months ago but they do now and they keep on listening and keep on asking questions until i have to remind them that the potato soup is probably burning on the stove. Iowa Republican from Way Back seems if my conversations and the Gallup poll Are any indications to favor Stassen. Discussions usually end continued on Page 22