Word: gunther
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officer in charge of escorting the Russians out of the U.S. zone last week was Major Gunther E. Hartel. Anxious to avoid a siege such as the Russians staged in Frankfurt two years ago - they left only after the U.S. cut off water, food and lights - the major invited the Russians to a formal conference at his office. At the conference, the Russians again refused to leave, but when they went back to their quarters, they found G.I.s busy loading their baggage into an Army truck...
Inside Expert John Gunther packed his bags for Hollywood and a new assignment for a hypercritical editor: to try to do a movie script "with a European background" for Greta Garbo who has not found a suitable one since...
Neumann dreads large classes. Once, lecturing before a large group of students at Yale, he had occasion to criticize John Gunther's pseudo-Freudian explanations of famous men and events and went on to dissect thoroughly the famous author. At the end of the lecture, a sweet young thing who had been sitting in the back row of the spacious room came up and introduced herself as Mrs. Gunther. The experience left Neumann wary...
Roosevelt in Retrospect was a fast, typical John Gunther look at F.D.R.; Louis Fischer looked longer at Gandhi but had more trouble trying to tell what he thought he saw, in his slogging, monotonous Life of Mahatma Gandhi. One of the year's best biographies was Amy Kelly's scholarly and readable Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings; another was Yale Professor Roland Bainton's exhaustive life of Protestant Martin Luther, Here I Stand. Louise Hall Tharp, a writing housewife, dared to try a delicate job and brought it off successfully in a spirited three-woman...
Poodles & Poker. Roosevelt in Retrospect nonetheless has Gunther's reader-tested qualities of liveliness and high quota of anecdote. Example: F.D.R. was economical. As a young man he disliked paying more than $2 for a shirt, and in the White House he charged Mrs. Harry Hopkins 50? a day for the keep of her poodle. Gunther names the only man who ever called F.D.R. an s.o.b. to his face: Leon Henderson. Myrna Loy was the President's favorite actress, and he loved poker. He saved and filed Christmas cards and he kept the bullet fired...