Word: jon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Tragedy. In a book on Germany, The Silent War, published this week, Stefan Weyl and Jon B. Jansen, two young men of the Social Democratic underground movement, write: "The charge that has to be made against the German people is not that they never rose against the Hitler dictatorship. . . . That would have been expecting the impossible. . . . The tragedy for Germany and the world is that the German people, and especially the leaders of the Weimar Republic, were not politically mature enough to recognize what National Socialism really meant. . . . Nor is it an excuse for the Germans that...
...picture is full of fire, galloping steeds and sword play-most of the playing by copper-torsoed Jon Hall, who plays Haroun-Al-Raschid to Miss Montez' Sherazade. But that is not all. The picture is, besides, an unusually effective Technicolor job. Best shots: the play of sunlight and shadow across the rich bronze desert sands...
...rich cigars." He was temperamental, even with the delicate Roxane: "I knocked her down on to the bed. She got up and I knocked her down again. . . . She wept. 'That's twice you've hit me. But I can't help it. I love Jon.' " So Abner picked her up tenderly and treated her "discolored...
Born. To Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 35, and ex-Colonel Charles Augustus, 40: their fifth child, fourth son; weight, 9 Ib.; at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Their other living children are: Jon Morrow, 10 (born six months after the kidnap-slaying of two-year-old Charles Augustus Jr.); Land Morrow, 5; Anne Spencer...
Bearded, barefooted Jonas and his uncounted half-breed offspring are always going to earn a living "when we get twisted around." Their problem is gasoline. It costs money. Without it they can neither fish for bonita nor make Jonas' ancient clapboard truck run. When a sailor son (Jon Hall) comes home with a prize U.S. fighting cock, Jonas wagers the family furniture, the vanilla crop, anything at hand, on the fortune-restoring bird. The result is the blackest day in the history of the Tuttles...