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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unskilled laborer in the German Baltic port of Lübeck. At 17 joined the Socialist Party, fought against Nazis in street brawls. In 1933 fled on a fishing smack to Norway (where he had distant relatives), one leap ahead of Hitler's Gestapo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MAYOR OF FREE BERLIN | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...that West Germany could not "survive one day of modern war." To Walter Lippmann. Khrushchev turned right around and warned the West that, to avoid "suicidal" missile war, the Germans would probably turn to the East instead of the West, as they kid in the days of the Hitler-Stalin pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pressure at Berlin | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...guests (among them: Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Hans Conreid) splashed inspired nonsense all over the screen. Biggest splasher: muffin-faced Pianist and Professional Psychopath Oscar Levant ("On my own show I wear black tie and strait jacket"). Oscar warmly congratulated Paar-"You have the most responsive audience since Adolf Hitler in the good old days"-offered capsule analyses of a few colleagues. Eddie and Liz: "How high can you stoop?" Elsa Maxwell: "The oldest woman still subsisting on a scholarship." Zsa Zsa Gabor: "Does social work among the rich." As for himself, lamented Levant: "They asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Busy Air | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

When Curley had playfully suspended a football game in Harvard Stadium (because President Lowell was not anxious to sponsor B.C. against Holy Cross), the Crimson and the Daily Dartmouth compared him to Hitler. But in an attempt to assess the man, to make that suggestion is only to confuse matters in a manner worthy of Curley himself. For he was one Hitler who could not do without a soapbox and a Boston Irish audience. As garrulous as was his term in the State House, he did not seem made for government on that broad a scale. His lavish handouts...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: The Harvard History of James M. Curley | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

...several problems arise in connection with any plan for a neutralized Central Europe, which argue strongly against it. As an English commentator has pointed out, the Russians might probably foment internal disorder and then seize desired cities to foil "fascist plots." Hitler's precedent with the Sudeten Germans forms an instructive precedent which shows how effective this tactic can be. Could weakened NATO forces contest successive nibbles and would we dare to use massive retaliation against a small Russian move? In any case, a buffer zone plan seems to provide little more stability than exists at present. Demilitarizing Central Europe...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Berlin Again | 11/19/1958 | See Source »

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