Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Mimi was hurting him politically, Hitler broke things off in the summer of 1928. Mimi tried hanging herself, finally instead married a hotelkeeper in Seefeld. Then in January 1931, there was a knock on her door. It was Rudolf Hess. "Hitler sent me," he said. "He wants to know if you are happy." Maria got the idea and soon ran off to Munich. There was a touching reconciliation on Hitler's sofa and one breathless Liebesnacht-night of love. Peis quoted Maria: "I let him do what he wanted. I was never so happy." Hitler told her: "Mimilein...
...familiar with Onward, Christian Soldiers, they said, and in casting about for background music for the film's climactic military parade in Tel Aviv, they had hit on an RCA Victor recording by Arthur Fiedler of T. M. Carter's Boston Commandery March. What they did not know was that Composer Carter had used Onward, Christian Soldiers as his motif. The studio quickly pointed out that there are some Christian soldiers in the Israeli army (said one film maker: "We are a democratic country"), but a further check only increased their embarrassment: not a single Christian, they learned...
...When I first mentioned it to him, I think he was shocked. But there's no doubt about his acting ability, or his depth of feeling, and when you remember what kind of man St. Paul was when he started out -he started out as a heel, you know-it doesn't sound so farfetched...
...family onstage. But even John, whose liquid offstage escapades lent gaudy luster to a theatrical generation, recognized amber-eyed Ethel as queen. With her, both boys were always chastened-properly formal and respectful. "My God!" exclaimed a friend after attending a typical family dinner. "Don't you know each other...
...road and admirers from the new Hollywood-and no one ever heard a word of self-pity. One evening last week she woke for a moment from a short nap, grasped her nurse's hand and asked: "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy." Then, at 79, Ethel Barrymore died...