Word: dietrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Front that "first shots can be dangerous." In Zurich, filmgoers stood and applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature of President Roosevelt. The Volksrecht answered Nazi Press Chief Dietrich's charge that Switzerland was giving up "spiritual neutrality": "We reject spiritual eunuchry. Away with mental castration which goes by the name of spiritual neutrality! Statesmen of great powers should have learned by now that neither love nor liking can be ordered...
...Dietrich is to Ketcham doBeer that's free. Willoughby enough? I Lynch's some of mine at the Brown game. At any rate, Le Boutillier of it is that the Harvards have a good team. I Pickett the Crimson to be the Wolner: Harvard 13 Yale...
...some three dozen Westerns. It was not until John Ford picked him up in his superwestern Stagecoach (1939) that Wayne began to get out of the tumbleweed into the limelight. In Seven Sinners and The Spoilers he turned out to be one of the best tackling dummies Marlene Dietrich has ever found. The war has given Cinemactor Wayne an unexpected break. Since outdoor violence has become one of the world's most important occupations, any man who can portray it honestly on the screen has a likely future...
Cheesecake Did It. Bathing beauties did it. Big, beautiful eyes and slim, wonderful legs did it. The supreme Empress of Cheesecake, the very Marlene Dietrich herself, last week was fittingly crowned by the Treasury as the champion bond seller of all. On three cross-country trips she upped the pulses and unsnapped the purses of thousands of U.S. males. At Cleveland's General Electric plant, when Worker Edward LaCuoco signed away 10% of his pay for the duration, Miss Dietrich rewarded him with a long cine-kiss (see cut). Mr. LaCuoco said it was worth...
...Nazi press had announced an all-out offensive on Moscow. On Oct. 9 Hitler sent his personal press stooge, Dr. Otto Dietrich, from the front to Berlin to announce to newspapermen that the very last remnants of the Red Army were "locked in two steel German pockets before Moscow and were undergoing swift, merciless annihilation." Dietrich wound up: "And on that, gentlemen, I stake my whole journalistic reputation." Nazi headlines shouted: DIETRICH: CAMPAIGN IN EAST DECIDED. Said the official Völkischer Beobachter: "The strategic decision has already been gained...