Word: irmgard
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...issue. One, the account of Wolf Ladejinsky, the U.S. agricultural attaché, fired as a security risk for the flimsiest of reasons. He was publicly condemned by the Agriculture Department in spite of having been previously cleared by the State Department. The other story was that of Irmgard Schmidt, the German girl who obtained secrets for the Russians by using her charms on U.S. Air Force intelligence officers. These intelligence officers are certainly security risks since they obviously are easy prey for a shapely girl. Who are they? Have they been reprimanded? Apparently not. They have been allowed to hide...
...good-looking brunette walked into the Berlin headquarters of U.S. Air Force intelligence, batted her black eyes at a pair of intelligence officers and confided that she had some secrets to tell about the East German Communist government. Air Force intelligence was fascinated-not so much by Irmgard ("Gardy") Schmidt's secrets as by her more public assets...
Peter K. Grimes had neither the cloak, the dagger nor the devil-may-care air of a scarlet pimpernel. A Boston travel agent, Harvardman Grimes, 32, married a German war widow who had come to the U.S. to study at Columbia University. His wife Irmgard had left her two young daughters by her first marriage in East Germany with her father, but she and Peter quickly agreed that the family should be brought together...
...Grimes quit his job, got a Communist visa for ten days, registered with the U.S. consulate in Berlin, then went with Irmgard to the Schroeder home in Nassenheide, 25 miles north of Berlin. Evelyn, 11, and Monica, 14, knew only two American phrases-"Nuts" and a clumsy version of "You aggravate me"-and many terrible tales about America. Said Mrs. Grimes: "I was heartsick about Monica's books; containing nothing but lies about...
Before she hit the Met, Irmgard Seefried completed her third tour of the U.S. hinterland. On the road, she sang lieder, folk songs, occasional operatic arias and, usually, one or two songs by contemporary composers. A gusty, warmhearted woman of 33, she quickly developed an enthusiasm for U.S. audiences and her own philosophy about singing for them...