Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pfungstadt, a village near Frankfurt, a makeshift press rolled out Germany's first free newspaper since pre-Nazi days...
...editor and publisher of Berlin's Tagesspiegel (Mirror of the Day), biggest paper in the U.S. zone, 54-year-old Reger is a key man in the Allied effort to reestablish a free German press. In the summer of 1945, when "good" Germans were hard to find, American officers summoned him from his village of Mahlow. They knew his record: he was a onetime (1920-27) publicist for the Krupp works at Essen, later an anti-Nazi novelist and broadcaster. During the war he had escaped the Gestapo's notice by dropping his pen name of Reger...
...week, after four months of testimony, a U.S. tribunal acquitted them of the charge.* The tribunal did not say why, but apparently it thought that businessmen could not be blamed for carrying out orders from political leaders. That did not mean that the Krupp officials would get off scot free. They still had to face trial on charges of looting industries in occupied countries and exploiting the slave labor which they employed in their plants...
Major Desmond Ferneaux-Lightfoot, D.S.O., of His Majesty's .Brigade of Guards, fascinated Harriet because his character was so mixed. Snootily correct in his brilliant uniform, free-&-easy in old country clothes, Desmond's "animal eyes" made him a scary lover, but he had a wonderfully gentle way with children. To hear him in church, intoning the responses in a pious voice, was enough to convince you that he was a sanctimonious prig-until you saw him gay & dashing in a nightclub. The trusted confidant of his general, Desmond was one of the most promising officers...
...Something Should Happen." His father was a Congregational minister in upstate New York, his mother was a friend of Mark Twain (she wrote his funeral elegy) and one of the first women ordained in the Congregational Church. A forceful and free-thinking person (she once sincerely assured her congregation "that if they could find a spiritual up lift elsewhere, there was no reason for coming to church"), Mrs. Eastman spent her last, vigorous year learning to swim, undergoing a Freudian analysis and deciding to leave her church. Her advice to her son, to "live out of yourself persistently," helped...