Word: edelweiss
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...refuge in the boarding house where Miss Plum lives with various cinema people who differ from the successes only in not having jobs. Gradually it dawns on Atterbury that Colossal is being ruined by 1) its ace director (Alan Mowbray), a Russian who wants to send to Switzerland for edelweiss for his Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart), a smart...
...time he got himself elected to something in Jamaica, he somehow got himself jailed for something else. Harlem Negroes took his Universal Negro Improvement Association away from him by default and he founded another. When that went bankrupt, he started a third. His Jamaica newspaper, The Blackman, and his Edelweiss* Amusement Corp. (vaudeville, cinemas and an amusement park) did better, until last year when they, too, went broke, but not before Marcus Garvey had been jailed again for seditious libel in The Blackman. When he grew tired of the small arena of Jamaica politics and planned to go back...
Sirs: TIME, issue of Sept. 25, under title Austria, errs in details in otherwise excellent article. Bundeskanzler Dollfuss did not earn ". . . the Edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant." He did. however, earn the two silver stars of a First Lieutenant. Stars on the collar tabs denote rank in the Austrian army. Edelweiss and "caper-cailzie" plumes are an integral part of the 14th Army Corps, the Edelweisskorps, H. Q Innsbruck, Tyrol, of the old Imperial & Royal Army. . Peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents were no handicap to promotion to First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army...
Little Engelbert Dollfuss got his fill of mountains. He served 37 months at the front (six times as much active service as the average U. S. soldier saw), won himself a string of decorations and the edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant.* Considering his peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents, this promotion, in the extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef, was a notable achievement. For months at a time Lieut. Dollfuss and his men held a tiny valley in the Dolomites against the Italian advance. Natives near Trent still call it Dollfussthal (Dollfuss Valley...
...Hameln, labeled YOU ARE NOW OUR PIED PIPER. In the city twelve Nazi standard bearers tramped with flags flying to the high altar of Berlin's Protestant Cathedral while the choir sang, "Thus Far God Has Guided Us." Nazi peddlers did a land-office business selling wooly imitation edelweiss, Hitler's favorite posy, for ten pfennigs each, the proceeds to go to charity so that, in the Chancellor's own words, "No one should go hungry on this day." Restaurants, beer gardens and Nazi headquarters who had promised to distribute free food ran out of supplies early...