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...precise, monocled German psychiatrist attempted to convince three U.S. judges-Fred Cohn, John Speight and Herman Elegant-that Yvette was of unsound mind. Immaculate in morning coat and pinstriped trousers, Professor Karl Kleist testified that Mrs. Madsen was reacting to a deep-seated persecution complex when she shot her husband for laughing at her Brooklynese. "As far as I am informed," explained the professor, "this is the dialect of the common people. Since it revealed Mrs. Madsen's common origin, she felt insulted...
...books were bought by Herbert Kleist and F. N. Jones, on trips to New York and Philadelphia as well as in the second hand shops of Boston...
Numbers v. Reality. Liddell Hart gives fragments of his discussions with Field Marshal von Kleist (who conducted the retreat from Russia) and a dozen others. They all had bitter recollections-Hitler's disregard of their advice; their success in carrying out impossible orders, only to be supplanted afterwards; the constant surveillance of the Gestapo. General von Manteuffel, an army commander at 47, told how Hitler would intoxicate himself with figures and quantities...
Three men, named Kleist, Kimball, and Newman, could easily take the 100, 220, 120 highs, 220 lows, high jump, and broad jump among them today. Newman won the indoor Heptagonal sprint this winter, and Kleist has been hitting 23-plus and 6-3 in the broad jump and high jump...
...Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, 63, who had commanded the First German Tank Army in the Caucasus. He was caught in Mitterfels by two doughboys of the U.S. 26th Division. The captors found 25 traveling bags packed for flight, a quantity of narcotics and hypodermic syringes, but apparently there was no food in the house. Shaking like a leaf, Kleist accepted some U.S. white bread...