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Other picture magazines play variations on the Nannen themes, but the differences are usually imperceptible. This makes it hard to explain why Stern is first in the Illustrierte sweepstakes, a mystery one also-ran has solved with the invidious remark that "Nannen has the sort of hysterical temperament it takes to run an illustrated." Some German journalists argue that that is also what it takes to read one.