Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sets) the faithful commemorated the 25th anniversary of Lenin's death. In Moscow, a smiling Joseph Stalin and other Communist bigwigs sat through ceremonies on the stage of the Bolshoi theater, in front of a color guard that looked strangely like a male chorus line (see cut). In Berlin, meanwhile, the anniversary was marked by an uncommon display of the new Communist sweetness & light-and a prize propaganda boner...
...fact that five of his songs (Begin the Beguine, Just One of Those Things, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Night and Day and I Get a Kick Out of You) ranked last year among the 35 all-time U.S. popular favorites. (The record is matched only by Irving Berlin, and was not equaled by such Tin Pan Alley titans as Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers...
...such easy refuge awaits Frau K. She was conspicuous among those I saw; she carried no rucksack, she was well dressed, and her eyes bulged with fear edging on hysteria. She had traveled all day from a village north of Berlin where her husband is a physician. Dr. K., a Stalingrad prisoner, was released a year ago and soon resumed his old practice. The local MVD eyed his success and set their price. He was summoned and instructed to use his office as an intelligence center, to submit reports on all his patients, some of whom were suspected of being...
...East. Principal task of the delegates who met at Bielefeld last week was to elect a successor to venerable Bishop Wurm. They chose another big figure in German Protestantism. Like Wurm, the new chairman, stocky, white-goateed Bishop Otto Dibelius, Lutheran Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, was unbending in his opposition to the Nazis. Barred from the pulpit, he defied Nazi orders against speaking and writing, and was brought to trial. When Minister for Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl shouted at him: "What right have you to speak for the Church, now that you have been dismissed from your religious duties...
Today, 68-year-old Bishop Dibelius is again fighting for freedom of the Church-this time, in the Russian zone of Germany, against the Communists. His fearless words, in & out of the pulpit in Berlin, have made him the outstanding spokesman of Protestantism in eastern Germany. By electing him, the Bielefeld delegates have thrown the whole weight of their support to the Church in the east...