Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the none-too-startling fact that the Great Mass Market lay in the "young postwar families who want excitement." Treyz's pioneer entry into the mass-excitement field was Maverick, an hour-long western. He flew to Hawaii personally to sell the show to Henry J. Kaiser, and soon bullets were ricocheting merrily off mantelpieces from coast to coast. Treyz's first great masterpiece of programming, however, came with 77 Sunset Strip-the series that gave Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes and his pomade-raking pocket comb to the world. Millions of acned teen-agers fell for Kookie...
...seems that Kaiser Wilhelm had an American mistress, who, despite her Calvinist morality (she made him burn his collection of dirty pictures), became an ardent German nationalist. The author, her grandnephew, has set down a fascinating history, although he has failed to establish, as he believes, that Auntie was a major cause of World...
Americans popularly blamed World War I on the blustering German Kaiser and traced his evil aspirations back to Frederick the Great. They need not have looked so far. When he was in his 20s, no one stirred the Kaiser's dreams of empire more than a pretty, blue-eyed American of good family and Protestant piety named Mary Esther Lee. After combing many volumes of letters she sent home from Europe, Alson Smith concluded that this daughter of a rich Manhattan grocer (and his own great-aunt) was the Kaiser's mistress. The course of modern German history...
Wilhelm tired of Mary. He demoted her husband to a corps commander, and when Mary reproached him, petulantly ordered all the Y.M.C.A. signs torn down in Berlin. Banished from politics at 52, Mary devoted her life to religion. She died at 76, five weeks before the Kaiser led the nation...
Luckiest of all was Harbor Pilot Harold Kaiser. Unable to get off the liner United States by small boat after clearing New York Harbor in the rough seas, he sailed off to Europe on an unexpected 13-day vacation cruise...