Word: gestapoes
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...grim Gestapo type in boots and a belted leather coat began to lecture in German-accented English: "Businessmen, you have perhaps noticed that Hertz has been ticking along like a fine watch lately. This is no accident. This is the result of training and discipline." He pushed through a steel door that clanked shut, and conducted a tour of the concrete block: "There we take the men who service the cars and turn them into fanatics. And in this area, we are building a super troop of car attendants." The 60-second commercial, viewed during the Dean Martin show...
...With its Gestapo creation canceled, Carl Ally is using a relatively gentle tone for Hertz. Its continuing campaign is aimed at the weary traveler who can, through his friendly Hertz man, borrow an umbrella when it rains, make an appointment with the local dentist, or scrounge a quarter for a shoeshine...
...Later, Lord Davies' passport has turned up, but not his teeth. A search of an intense kind has been made. As the Malmö train connects with the Berlin train, it is thought that the teeth have been stolen by a Gestapo agent. Later still. Lord Davies' teeth have been found." All, however, was not low jinks in high diplomacy. Churchill drew Macmillan closer to him, and the fact that both men had American mothers made it seem right that Macmillan would work better than most others in the vital area of Anglo-American cooperation. In this field...
...save people from capture, Wolf falsified travel papers, appealed to the German ambassador over the heads of the SS and the Gestapo. He even met the great art expert Bernard Berenson, a Jew and a U.S. citizen, at the villa where friends hid the old man for 13 months. For keeping that one secret alone, Wolf could have wound up in a concentration camp. But he went much further. He collaborated with the Florentines in hiding paintings and sculpture, and worked desperately through the church and the German ambassador to keep the city from becoming a military objective, although...
...occupied Paris, where they were living, and he and his mother fled to Nice, first unoccupied and later controlled by the easy-going Italians. In 1943, Italy capitulated and the Germans took over. The Hoffmanns dwelt in terror; many of their countrymen--expatriate Austrians--were picked up by the Gestapo...