Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typically spectacular rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There Russian anger and British impatience with the lingering Fascist regime were semi-officially proclaimed. Cried Nikolai Novikov, Soviet charge d'affaires in the U.S.: "The peoples of the Soviet Union hope that General Franco, this hireling of Hitler and Mussolini, will receive what is coming to him and his regime of Fascist dictatorship will be abolished...
Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Hitler's company commander in World War I, German consul general in San Francisco for two stormy years and spy extraordinary for the Third Reich, was back in the U.S. for a brief stay last week. Newsmen who remembered Wiedemann as a tall, black-haired fashion plate scarcely recognized the baggy-suited, greying, unshaven man who deplaned from an Army transport at California's Hamilton Field...
Four hours after his arrival. Wiedemann was aboard a plane bound for Washington. There, too, reporters were told they could not talk to him, would not be told why he had been brought to Washington. Best guess: Hitler's onetime personal adjutant was to be a star witness at war crimes trials of top Nazis...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
Shorn of the Russians, the meet went on, with newsreel cameras grinding from what once was Hitler's private box. The best performance was a 6 ft. 4 3/10 in. high jump by Sergeant Pete Watkins, ex-Texas A & M, who also won the no-meter high hurdles in 15.3 sec. The score: U.S. 94, Britain 43, France...