Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best measure of RIAS's effect is the reaction of the Communists, who have made a sneering pun on Heimlich's name; they call him "Der unheimliche Mr. Heimlich [the uncanny Mr. Canny]." Periodically the Russians try to jam RIAS: habitually the Soviet press screams against it. But every week, more than 1,000 letters pour into RIAS from the Soviet zone. From Jena and Leipzig, Dresden and Potsdam, as well as Berlin, the letters urge RIAS "to keep up the fight...
...Artie Shaw. "What the jazz boys have done with the clarinet," says Kell, "is colossal." Goodman was one of the first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session, I'm like a rabbit at a stoat's tea party...
...Berlin-born Czech, a veteran of the anti-Hitler underground. He is now U.S. correspondent for Zurich's daily Die Tat, the weekly Die Weltwoche, and his own European feature agency, Dukas. His helper for Vol. i, No. i, was Correspondent Hans Steinitz of the Bern daily Der Bund. They timed their maiden issue to meet Mrs. Jung on her arrival from a European trip. She had wed her husband under protest last spring, feeling that journalism was "all dissension, fear and hate," and Jung had promised to prove that it ain't necessarily...
...Communists feel? Mijnheer van der Meulen was regretful. "I would like to be helpful," he said; "we used to have some Communists in the plant. But now we have only one left, and I'm afraid you cannot meet him. We've given him some time off. You see, this week he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company...
Both Mijnheer van der Meulen's increased production schedules and Burgomaster Witschey's civic improvement plans are regarded as encouraging in Nijverdal. But "Marshall help" means something more personal than that. A slippered housewife made the point succinctly. "From 1931 to 1936," she said, "there wasn't much work at the mill. Jan dug peat. Almost the whole town dug peat. If Jan loses his job again, I don't think we would get over...