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...already rotting society. Grunberger even examines the peculiarities of Nazi speech and humor. Of all the jokes that a few dared whisper about Hitler, perhaps the most revelatory of him, and of the Germans, has the Führer in a fishing boat with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mussolini. Chamberlain puts out a line, patiently lights a pipe, and within two hours has landed a respectable catch. Mussolini jumps into the water and grabs a fat pike. Hitler orders the pond drained. As the fish flop about helplessly on the bottom, Chamberlain asks Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life Under the Swastika | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

...dignity by requiring unseen radio announcers to wear dinner jackets while reading the news. Reith resigned as BBC chief in 1938 to head Imperial Airways, which merged with another airline the following year to become BOAC. The dour Scot ran several ministries in the wartime governments of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 28, 1971 | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...make herself look more attractive by stuffing handkerchiefs in her bra. She called der Führer "the old gentleman," and it was not until three years after they met that they finally bedded down on the same red velvet sofa that Hitler used to receive Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Dictator Benito Mussolini. Said Eva once: "It's a good job they don't know what really took place on that sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 21, 1971 | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

Basketball Behemoth Wilt Chamberlain stands 7 ft. 1 in. tall, weighs 275 Ibs. Even so, he complains, "I've had to adapt to normal sizes all my life." Not any more. To contain his outsize physique, Chamberlain is building a $1,000,000 house in the Hollywood hills. Soon he will be able to enter a 14-ft. doorway, toast in front of a 45-ft. fireplace, plunge into a 14-ft.-deep pool and loll on an 8-ft. by 9-ft. bed in a 1,000-sq.-ft. boudoir under a 14-ft. ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 21, 1971 | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...York Restaurateur Joseph Santo paid $12,100 for a 55-case collection of French, German and American wines, which until recently was reserved by Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel for the exclusive sipping of visiting Presidents. After the headlining items had been displayed by a brocaded, powder-wigged chamberlain and sold, connoisseurs and individual collectors were able to bid on the less celestial vintages: a case of Château la Gaffelière Naudes 1952, a red Bordeaux, was gaveled down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUCTIONS: The High Cost of Sipping | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

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