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Affinity in Moscow. Things were different in Moscow, where an even older pro wowed her sellout audience of 1,350 in a variety theater across the river from the Kremlin. Marlene Dietrich, who left her native Germany in 1930 and refused to go back after Hitler came to power, was hailed by the Russian press as a "fighter against Fascism," but she did her best to dodge politics-and it wasn't hard in a tight, transparent pink evening dress...
...delivered the old Dietrich standbys in the old throaty stage whisper that makes every man feel as though Marlene's face were buried in his neck. Even if she is now 62, the audience loved the feeling. When it was over, she made it mutual. "I must tell you that I have loved you for a long time," she told them. "The reason I love you is because you have no lukewarm emotions-you are either very sad or very happy. I am proud to say I think I have a Russian soul myself." The curtain calls lasted...
...when the country was too poor and too hungry to do much about cultivating beauty, when few German women could afford to dress well or to eat nonstarchy foods. Occasionally, beauty of a fascinating and slightly wicked kind did grow from the ruins, personified by that incomparable charmer, Marlene Dietrich. But then came the Nazis, who insisted that women's role was to keep house and bear children for the Third Reich. Pro claimed Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, head of all Nazi women's organizations: "Our weapon is the cooking spoon...
...archivist in East Berlin hurried off to tell his bosses. He had just unearthed a copy of Marlene Dietrich's long-missing birth certificate. Unable to keep the secret...
Mouse Backs. Dr. Wynder, who has never smoked, began work on cigarettes and cancer while still a medical student in St. Louis. Now at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, working with Chemist Dietrich Hoffmann, he has had tens of thousands of cigarettes smoked in machines, collected the vapors and "tar," and tested innumerable fractions as potential causes of cancer. Most early tests were on the backs of mice be cause the skin there is of the same cellular class as the inside of a man's lung. More recently, to study an approximation of what...