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First there had been Hilda Kruger, the actress. Then came Hilda, the seductive, blonde spy suspect. Now Mexico was getting used to Hilda, the writer. Last week her second book (Eliza Lynch or Tragic Destiny) hit the stands. It was a gushing tribute to Eliza Alicia Lynch, the tempestuous, French-Irish mistress of 19th Century Paraguayan Dictator Francisco Solano...
...young German actress (Max Reinhardt started her at 14), Hilda first learned about destiny, did a good deal to shape her own. She played before Hitler and Göring. In London she met Anthony Eden, and this brought the Gestapo around. She told them what she has since told other snoopers: "I do not make politic." In St. Moritz for the skiing, Hilda was introduced to U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. He helped her get a visa...
Hollywood was unkind to Hilda because she would not play in anti-Nazi films ("after all, my family was still there"). A rejected suitor denounced her to the FBI. Hilda went to Mexico, became a Mexican citizen...
...Stuff. As Señorita Kruger, Hilda got around with the right, big-time politicians, soon picked up Spanish. She also did a few films. Then came war-and with it, the undeserved Nazi tag again...
Durocher was visibly hurt. He said Christian had broken his jaw falling into a water trough. He described Christian's heckling as inhumanly abrasive-worse than that of the gifted stentor, Ebbets Field Hilda, whose loon-like cries are supposed to carry to the Mississippi. Patiently, almost demurely, he recalled: "As we say in baseball, he had a tremendously loud voice." On June 9, the night of the alleged beating, said Durocher, softly, Christian had ridden the Dodger pitcher, Curt Davis, into a lather:* "Davis is an elderly gentleman in the vicinity of 42 today." Durocher explained...