orig. Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm born Dec. 18, 1913, Lübeck, Ger. died Oct. 8/9, 1992, Unkel, near Bonn German statesman. As a young Social Democrat, he fled to Norway to avoid arrest after the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s. There he assumed the name Willy Brandt and worked as a journalist. Returning to Germany after World War II, he was elected to parliament in 1949 and became mayor of West Berlin (1957-66), a post in which he achieved world fame. He led a coalition government as chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1969-74). As chancellor, he improved relations with East Germany, other communist nations in eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union and helped strengthen the European Economic Community. For these efforts he received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1971. He remained the leader of the Social Democratic Party until 1987
born June 26, 1898, Frankfurt am Main, German Empire died Sept. 17, 1978, Munich, W.Ger. German aircraft designer. From 1926 he was chief designer and engineer at the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Augsburg, Ger., which in 1938 became Messerschmitt AG. In 1939 his first military aircraft, the Messerschmitt 109 (Me 109), set a speed record of 481 mph (775 km/hr). In World War II his factory produced 35,000 Me 109's for the German air force, as well as the Me 110 bomber, the Me 163 rocket-propelled plane, and the Me 262, the first combat jet. Under a postwar ban on aircraft production, his firm made prefab housing and sewing machines until 1958
If someone does something willy-nilly, they do it in a careless and disorganized way, without planning it in advance. Clerks bundled papers into files willy-nilly