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Hitler, Göring & Goebbels made a drive for scarce metals, confiscated door handles, hinges, lamps and name plates, made of copper, nickel, bronze, tin and lead, exempted all busts of Hitler, Göring & Goebbels. Last Feb. 15 Joseph Goebbels invited his guests to dine at Berlin's Hotel Bristol. That night the British came, uninvited. A blockbuster crashed square on the hotel. Days later, hundreds of dead had been dug from the ruins. Joseph Goebbels was not among them-he had left on the dead run when the alarm first sounded...
Cleveland's Jack & Heintz (Jahco) last week put their circus touch on lobbying. Bill Jack, Jahco's brass-lunged president, invited 525 Senators and Representatives to dine at his expense in Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. He wanted to: 1) explain Jahco's renegotiation troubles (TIME, Jan. 24); 2) make a proposition...
When Lord Louis returned to crowded New Delhi, he established his headquarters in the palace formerly occupied by a Sikh maharaja. To insure greater harmony and constant exchange of ideas, Lord Louis insisted on having the highest ranking U.S. and British officers live and dine with...
...immediate practical issues rather than toward grand principles. As a people and as a nation they are confident that they have something to give to the world. They are also pretty sure that if the world comes again to dog-eat-dog, the British will be able to dine as usual...
Born in 1859 in Paris, Seurat was the son of a one-armed bailiff who was a personality in his own right. Seurat père lived away from home wrapped in "strange religious practices," but consented to dine at his wife's table each Tuesday. On these occasions he screwed knives and forks into the stump of his artificial arm and carved "with speed and even transport, muttons, filets, small game and fowl...