Word: funke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lonely men, the only inmates. But they are seven of the blackest Nazis still alive: Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler's closest confidants; Karl Doenitz, once commander of the German navy; Baron Konstantin von Neurath, former proconsul of Czechoslovakia; Albert Speer, Hitler's production genius; Walter Funk, director of Nazi finances; Baldur von Schirach, leader-hero of Nazi youth; and ex-Admiral Erich Raeder...
Ailing & Aging. Last week a crack appeared in the secrecy wall. Frau Walter Funk, who occasionally visits her husband in the prison, called a press conference in Bonn. The Spandau prisoners are ailing and aging, she reported. Hess is "even more insane and often screams." Neurath is almost blind and must be led about the prison. She painted a tearful picture of the dethroned supermen (actually they have four doctors to guard their health, gardens to work in, books to read...
When Divine unfreezes and goes on with the game, he knows that "of course he had been dreaming." And besides, what could anyone do? Yet he dabs at his dinner that evening, stumbles away to his cabin in a funk...
...Also in Fred Rentschler's class ('09): Judge Harold Medina, Samuel (Captain from Castile) Shellabarger, Publisher Wilfred J. Funk and onetime Assistant Secretary of State Norman Armour...
Evocative, humid, esoteric, synoptic anecdote-where does Mandel get this stuff? It sounds like he's been sitting up all night with Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, by Dr. Wilfred Funk...