Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marie's glory was also glory for her milker. Kurt Kramer, onetime German P.W. who settled down after the war as a hired hand in the tiny Norman village of Ecardenville-la-Campagne. He attributed Marie's success to his secret feeding mixture of oats and hay, and to his own way with animals, which included addressing Marie as "Mein kleines Häslein" (my little rabbit) whenever he milked...
...Ever since his This Week magazine article admitting that he had accepted pay for playing amateur tennis (TIME, May 30), former U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer has been getting the cold shoulder from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. To make it official, the proper officials of the U.S.L.T.A. have fired Big Jake from his job as coach of the Junior Davis Cup squad, a training group that was originally his brain child. The new coach: Don Budge, another pro, who was U.S. Singles champ...
...book's U.S. publishers advertise it as having sold 70,000 copies in Germany, although the German publishers more modestly correct that figure to just under 10,000. Lawyer-Author Kramer, now the state's attorney of the city of Hamburg, who used to defend anti-Nazis in court when Hitler was riding high, was usually in trouble with the regime. As a translator in the German army he was busted from captain and shipped off to the Russian front as a machine gunner. Out of that experience he has written an awkward though well-intentioned book...
Hero Victor Velten, like Author Kramer a lawyer and translator, despises his Führer, hates war. He loses a cushy occupation job in Paris and his officer's rank when he takes up with an old girl friend who is in the resistance. Shipped to the Russian front, he does nothing more dangerous than guard and kitchen duty, manages to escape handily when the great retreat gets under way. He becomes a chauffeur at headquarters, and he always manages to keep just out of reach of the Russians. At the end he joins a group that deliberately deserts...
...Author Kramer thinks of Hero Velten as a culpable intellectual whose crime is to "take the line of least resistance." Poor Velten is really rather commonplace, but in him Kramer has fashioned a figure of unheroic reality, the moral goldbrick constantly leaning against war's back door. We Shall March Again reaches a telling climax as the spokes fall out of the German war machine. Fuzzy-cheeked youngsters try to hold positions that crack divisions could not defend, commanders cannot reach the Führer because he is dillydallying at his own birthday party. But these vivid vignettes cannot...