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...Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your mind there's a conflict," but everything is resolved when 1) Lilli...
...funeral (where a photographer got slugged for being "disrespectful"); a Hollywood extortionist waiting on a street corner for money from Actress Betty Grable, getting caught by agents disguised as gardeners. There were absorbing glimpses of malefactors from George ("Machine-Gun") Kelly to Fritz Kuhn and his Nazi German-American Bund, as well as behind-the-scenes sleuthing heroes at work in the FBI's Quantico, Va. laboratories. From secret files came a sequence of rare excitement. Filmed by G-men through a transparent mirror in his office wall, it showed German Spy Frederick Joubert Duquesne clandestinely removing diagrams...
What led poor Ed to his bed of pain? The story begins back in his turn-of-the-century childhood, when he is a dutiful teen-ager slaving away in his German-American father's "Lilliputian delicatessen." Father and mother have taught him that his three brothers and a sister are geniuses, but that he is a dolt. He takes it in good grace: "I sure wish I was an artist, a genius, thought Edward, instead of being dumb like I am." Dumb Ed has a dumb friend, a little pet hen that pecks "feverishly at his lips...
...memory of Zeppelins passing thunderously at night above his family's apartment in Bremerhaven, and a fluency only in his native tongue. It was 1917, and the U.S. had interned his father Adolf, an engineer for the North German Lloyd line; Engineer Schriever sent for his wife and sons Bernard and Gerhard, and they soon moved to the German-American community of New Braunfels, Texas. A few days before Ben's eighth birthday, his father was killed in an industrial accident in San Antonio. The boy shouldered his new responsibilities as male head of the family with what...
...Harry Sinclair Lewis after he had come to Manhattan from his native Sauk Center, Minn., via Yale. It happened in 1912 when young Hal-his friends called him "Red" for his thin, gingerish thatch-saw a lady across a tearoom. It was Grace Hegger, daughter of a Catholic German-American art dealer. She had golden hair, a job on Vogue, and she brought out the romantic in Hal, who wrote her some of the goofiest poetry boy ever wrote girl...