Word: gunther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are two good reasons why: 1) John Gunther has enormous prestige as a news coverer of continents (Inside Europe; Inside Asia); 2) his amassing of colorful detail is as easy to take as gossip...
...worst and best that can be said of Inside Latin America is that it is typical Gunther-broadsides of factual beef boiled down to the shreds assimilable by the man in the street. The continental scale is impressive; the book is an amazing condensation job, and so plausible that tens of thousands of readers will be sure they have been to Latin America...
...fiction best seller. That publishing house is Alliance Book Corp. Its best seller is Jan Valtin's Out of the Night, which has already pushed beyond the 400,000 mark. The man who could tell them how it was done is Alliance's President Henry Gunther Koppell, 46, who in two years has steered Alliance from a resounding flop with its first novel (Hermann Kesten's The Children of Guernica) to resounding success with Out of the Night. His formula: 1) "I don't believe in top-heavy lists just for the turnover"; 2) (wiggling...
Hydro (U. S. Department of the Interior) was filmed by a onetime MARCH OF TIME director, Gunther von Fritsch. A slick job of cutting and photography, Hydro gets at the problems back of the New Deal's Columbia River power project in the Northwest: denuded forest slopes, timber markets cut off by the war, abandoned farmlands that thirst for water. A propaganda picture, Hydro shows how Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams will irrigate barren fields, provide power for new defense industries, put jobless men to work. Best shots: the wild, glistening waters of the river undammed, royal Chinook salmon...
...example to other expatriates tempted to chisel with Italian exchange, the Fascist high court in Rome, from whose decision there is no appeal, walloped Mr. Ehret and Miss Gunther with terrific penalties. She got six years in jail and a fine of half a million lire ($25,000 at the official, not the black-bourse, rate of exchange), he seven years and a fine of $15,000. The U. S. Embassy was represented at the trial by Third Secretary Walter C. Bowling and through him Miss Gunther and Mr. Ehret begged the U. S. State Department to intervene...