Word: hooligan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Junker but a schoolteacher's son, Erwin Rommel fought with distinction in World War I, emerged into the chaos of postwar Germany a well decorated captain. Lost, he found Hitler. He became the ranting Führer's bodyguard, military adviser and top-drawer hooligan. When Hitler rang up the curtain on World War II Erwin Rommel was a colonel, commanded an 55 division that fought in the battle of Poland's Vistula bend. By the time France was invaded, Rommel was a major general; he led the 7th Armored Division in the breakthrough at Maubeuge...
Married. Dorothy Ledyard Knight, former wife of Manhattan's hooligan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev. Fumed ex-Husband Knight: "He's nothing but a traveling salesman-a peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will come crawling back...
...position that no Prussian likes, or wants to keep. He is on the defensive. As long as the Russian war holds the best of the German Army on the Eastern Front, as long as that hooligan and instinctive soldier Rommel needs help in Egypt, Rundstedt, the carefully cultivated flower of the old German military system, has to hold off the enemy in the north. Germany's most respected soldier, her soundest staff officer, her No. 1 field commander, he has to sit behind his bunkers and parry the enemy's thrusts. He may never again lead an offensive...
...PUZZLE OF THE HAPPY HOOLIGAN -Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Hildegarde Withers, the school-teacher whose detective powers have for many years shamed Inspector Oscar Piper of the New York police, visits Hollywood, where broken necks are becoming too common on a movie lot. Miss Withers' own neck is almost wrung and Inspector Piper flies to the rescue...