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Through the years of his U.S. heyday, Fritz Kuhn's plodding passion for Adolf Hitler was alloyed by a peripatetic passion for women. Four days after his Dachau escape, a 32-year-old waitress popped up with an old refrain. "Fritz is a very affectionate man," blonde Hedwig Munz told newsmen, "and we will be married as soon as all this trouble is straightened out." And Mrs. Kuhn? She was still the same patient Hausfrau who had stood by Kuhn through all his adventures. Said she: "How can she expect to marry my husband when he still is married...
...first to discover the truth of this conjecture was a Yorkshire linen draper. Shrewd, crude George Hudson, who married the boss's daughter, came into a ?30,000 legacy and swelled it, temporarily, into a railway fortune. In Hudson's heyday, he was able to play with $120 million of Britons' money.† "There he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill...
...colonial heyday, Burma had been a joy and profit to the British Empire. It was rich in rice, teak, petroleum and jewels; its amiable people (according to one historian) "caused no governor-general a sleepless night." In 1942 the British awoke; as British troops retreated from Burma, the conquering Japanese made quick friends among Burmese politicians. In 1943, the British returned as liberators, but only to prepare a graceful exit...
...Neal, tough and profane as well as courtly, has been the most powerful spokesman U.S. farmers have ever had. All during the Roosevelt years, he-more than any other man-shaped U.S. farm policy. In his heyday as president of the rich American Farm Bureau Federation (membership: 1,275,000), he had no peer as a Washington lobbyist. He knew when to cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry...
...Moral Rearmament" is entering a heyday. The personalistic revival movement which started under Frank Buchman as the Oxford Group after the first World War and took hold in the United States most successfully in the late Thirties now bids for big stakes, proclaiming that it offers "the answering ideology to Communism." Last Monday and Tuesday nights' overflow crowds of fashionable gentry at the Colonial Theatre watched Boston's free-of-charge performances of "The Good Road," MRA's touring propaganda spokesman in musical revue guise...