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British-born Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, appointed by Führer Hitler early this year to head the Foreign Office section dealing with Germans living abroad, branded as traitors all foreign-Germans "who while professing nationalist sympathies at the same time help the opponents of the Third Reich...
Hollywood legend has it that when Director Ernst Lubitsch went there he could think of no better use for the many drawers of his huge, flat-top desk than to grow mushrooms in them. So he interlarded bricks of mushroom spawn and fresh horse manure in the drawers, drew many an inquisitive sniff from visitors but never produced a mushroom...
...German who has undoubtedly been of interest to Langen & Co. is Harvard-educated Ernst ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, onetime chief of Foreign Press Relations in Germany and a favorite of Hitler, who liked to hear him play the piano. Last February Putzy fell from grace, fled to Switzerland, thence to London. He had indiscreetly called Joachim von Ribbentrop Nazi Ambassador to London, "Bnckendrop."* He had referred to the Moors fighting in Spain for German-aided General Franco as the "new friends of Aryan culture...
Most hair-raising escape from death was that of Germany's baldish, grinning Major-General Ernst Udet, Germany's No. 1 stunt flier whose stunts include flicking a handkerchief off the ground with his wingtip and who apparently bears a charmed life. After the War, in which he brought down 62 Allied planes, Udet was forced to bail out more than once, on one occasion barely managing to kick himself free of the falling wreckage of his plane in time to open his parachute. Few hours after last week's accident, which occurred while Udet was competing...
...figured that the Davis Cup final would really be the interzone matches between the U. S. and Germany. Soon as the draw was announced last week, experts alsc knew that the U. S. and Germany would split the first two matches-U. S. No. i Donald Budge trouncing Henner Ernst Otto Henkel, and German No. i Baron Gottfried von Cramm trouncing Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant. The opening matches turned out just so and the one doubles match became pivotal. Paired as always with husky Gene Mako, Budge did not hit his stride until von Cramm & Henkel...