Think of a letter
GERMAN television viewers see a lot of Thomas Gottschalk. Last Sunday, there he was again, hosting a two-hour 100th-birthday tribute to Bayern Munich, the country's most successful (and loathed) football club. Lately, the former disc jockey's 1970s hair-do has appeared even more than usual. With his more soberly coiffed brother, Christoph, Mr Gottschalk has been fronting advertisements for “P-shares”—shares in the national post office, Deutsche Post, that are due to be sold in November.
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