PLAIN PEOPLE: Frau Bracht's Line

A lot of lines had been hard hit, but Frau Wilhelmine Bracht could not think when business had been better. On Berlin's fashionable Kurfürstendamm, outside "Der Ring," the marriage bureau she had run these 14 years, Berliners crowded around such arresting announcements as:

"Turk, 47, widely traveled, worldlywise, seeks wife able to make representative impression in social life. Entry permit guaranteed."

Frau Bracht knew that "Turk, 47" would draw many eager applications from German women. There were calls for German men, too. "Brazilian girl, 27" and "Hungarian girl, 23, relatives in South America"...

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