Word: baron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international tennis, world's No. 1 amateur is Donald Budge, No. 2 is Baron Gottfried von Cramm. While Donald Budge is tuning up his game for the coming season, Gottfried von Cramm is languishing in a Nazi prison. Last week a group of U. S. athletes, headed by Tennist Budge, demanded von Cramm's release. Criticizing the failure of the Nazi Government to amplify their charges of "moral delinquency" on which the baron was arrested last March, the U. S. athletes protested that the Nazi accusations were a "mere subterfuge . . . that the secrecy of methods employed suggests...
...qualifying rounds and "knockout" elimination matches, the field of 28 teams narrowed down to two. Finalists were the defending champions, the Four Aces (Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard Schenken, Merwin Maier and alternate Sherman Stearns), and a quartet of Donor Harold Vanderbilt's old teammates, headed by Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. At the end of the 72-deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. But they came close to losing when, on the next to the last deal, two members of the team went down 200 points...
Wajan (Dr. Friedrich Dalsheim and Baron Victor von Plessan), a sympathetic record of Balinese ritual, is much more fully clothed than its popular predecessor of six years ago, Goona-Goona. Its exotic climax, a witch-exorcising trance dance, gives pictorial point to the recent reporting of Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias (Island of Bali) and Novelist Vicki Baum (Tale of Bali). Produced before either book was written, Wajan has been held up by years of litigation following the suicide in Germany of Jewish Dr. Dalsheim (The Wedding of Palo, The Head Hunters of Borneo), in the early days of the Hitler regime...
Sirs: Is there any reason why, because the recently deceased wife of the Austrian actor, Oscar Homolka,* happened to be a Baroness Hatvany, TIME should leap to the conclusion that it must be the former wife of Baron Ludwig Hatvany, better known to the world as the playwright and novelist, Christa Winsloe? ..." The Baroness Vally Hatvany was a young actress, and. according to your own report was 24 years old, which should immediately have cast doubts in your mind on her identity with Miss Winsloe, whose famous play and film Maedchen in Uniform appeared in Germany...
Miss Winsloe was alive and well the last time her friends here heard from her, which was less than a month ago. She lives in Munich, not in London. She has been married once to Baron Ludwig Hatvany who lives in Budapest. She was divorced from him twelve years...