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That Lady in Ermine. The late Ernst Lubitsch's easygoing Graustarkian spoof, with Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Technicolor and music (TIME...
That was the way the people's leaders felt this day, too. They had few original phrases to add to what had been said often before. But the words had a new and bolder meaning, and the people cheered. Said Ernst Reuter simply: "He who surrenders Berlin surrenders a world, surrenders himself." Gustav Pietch, railroad labor leader, bellowed hoarsely: "The blockade has failed, and now the Communists can only wait for the help of General Hunger and Generalissimo-" (here he paused long enough for the crowd to expect to hear "Stalin") "-Winter." Pietch concluded: "Again they will fail...
...only Betty again). She is struggling to save her domain from the grip of a handsome Hungarian hussar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). "It wasn't exactly down my alley," Betty confesses, "and it looked as if it might have been pretty hard for me to do." But the late Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose magic made exquisite comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such musicals as The Love Parade and The Merry Widow, probably had some good idea what he was about when he picked Betty (Lubitsch died before it was finished and Director Otto...
Each time he ran his elevator up or down the four-story building, Ernst Heuszler, a wounded Wehrmacht veteran, got a little relief from the afternoon heat. He looked at his watch-3:42. Heuszler decided he would have a beer on his way home. Two minutes later, as he recalled afterward, "I felt as if I suddenly had wings...
...m.p.h., one pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...