Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desert Fox (20th Century-Fox), a sympathetic film study of the Afrika Korps' General Erwin Rommel, will surprise those moviegoers who have come to accept all Hollywood Nazis as guttural, sadistic villains. Rommel, as played by James Mason, speaks flawless English, is kind to his troops, makes a generous foe and a faithful friend...
GERMANY Out of the Desert Lili Marlene's oldest friends had a get-together last week.* Into the hilly Westphalian town of Iserlohn, through the city gate topped by a huge iron cross memorializing the Franco-Prussian War, trooped 2,500 Germans. They eagerly searched each other's faces, occasionally stopping to shake hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their...
...greatest song hit of World War II, written in 1938 by two Germans, was broadcast by Germany to men of the Afrika Korps fighting in the 1941 desert campaigns. The British Eighth Army captured Lili from them and passed her on to soldiers the world over...
Organizer Saleem Abou el Naage, a handsome, sullen young man who had served a jail term for Red activities, shouted: "Every day there's a new story we'll be moved to Libya, or the Sinai desert or Syria or Jordan . . . Tell the Arab and foreign governments we'll never go! There's not enough dollars to make us forget our dearest Palestine. Here we live in a tent, fit for four chickens, not twelve people. Have you ever heard of such a camp in Russia or Communist countries? We are not Communists. We are Moslems...
From the shadowed haven of the wings, the stage of Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...