Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankfurt, one operator, wearily toting his worn leather briefcase, which is the money dealer's badge of badge of office, mourned: "Der Schwarzmarkt ist kaputt." In Paris, a fellow sufferer announced that he would have to "go into the picture business," i.e., peddle French postcards. "Not much money in that trade," he complained, "but we have to make a living...
...asked the poll, was the greatest statesman in all history? As the German weekly, Der Spiegel (literally The Mirror), totted up the returns last week, they provided an enlightening glimpse into that enigma, the collective German mind. Though they may have been chastened, the Germans had lost none of their admiration for strong men. Top place (with 3,937 out of 8,500 votes) went to Germany's first Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who once bragged that the great problems of history are solved by blood & iron. Next, with 773 votes, came Winston Churchill, who had helped to break...
...bottom of the list, in which Der Spiegel's readers went farther afield, was equally interesting. Stalin placed fifth with 172 votes, just ahead of Talleyrand and Metternich. Others who made the all-star list: Mohandas K. Gandhi (with 103 votes), Frederick the Great (55), Disraeli (43), Lenin and Caesar (33), Francisco Franco (24), Marx (11), and Truman (7). Clement Attlee got one vote-three less than Jesus Christ...
...first lap of her second U.S. tour (she sang Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter last season), Kathleen finds she has little time now for anything but singing. After her U.S. tour there are two other big engagements on her schedule: 1) Amsterdam, where she will sing Orfeo again with San Francisco's Pierre Monteux conducting, 2) the Edinburgh Festival, where her old coach, Bruno Walter, has promised to be at the piano to accompany her recital...
While the British still debated what to do, the harried German manager of the Kurbel acted fast. Handbills announced a new feature, Der Kupferne Berg (in English, The Hungry Hill), a dull B-picture about copper mining in Ireland...