Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kurt Heinrich Rieth, onetime German diplomat, undercover agent for Adolf Hitler, had been living at the Waldorf for two months. Federal agents, who called him the "No. 1 Nazi now in the U.S.," knew he was there. They were keeping their eye on him to see what he would do when last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune forced their hand, broke a page 1 story about Dr. Rieth's activities...
...Kurt M. Herzfeld '41, New York, N. Y.; and Frederick W. Pennoyer III, 1G.B., Arlington...
Still in Washington are Kurt Sell of Germany's D.N.B.; Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawakami of Japan's Domei; Kenji Kauno of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The little man who is no longer there is Count Leone Fumasoni-Biondi of Italy's Stefani Agency, stationed in Washington since 1932-a dark, soft-mannered gentleman whose ancestors have been Vatican officials for four centuries, whose uncle, Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, once Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., now holds the Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith. The Count, in fact, is no Fascist...
...orchestra, tell whether a "take" (trial recording) is any good. Victor's mastermind is twinkling-eyed Leonard Joy, who has been in the game for 15 years. Last week his latest bossing and conducting job was on the counters: an album of songs and dialogue from the Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin musicomedy, Lady in the Dark, recorded by the star of the show, Gertrude Lawrence (6 sides; $2). Between this one and Decca's earlier album by Hildegarde, there was no contest vocally: Hildegarde has the voice. But glamorous "Gertie" Lawrence still has what it takes...
Every Christmas Lanny goes to Kurt's home and brushes up on conditions in Silesia. He also visits Munich, where he hears an early oration by "Adi" Schicklgruber; Paris, where Isadora Duncan propositions him; Rome, where he gets into hot water trying to help Matteoti; London, where he promotes Stepfather Marcel's paintings. He becomes something of an art expert, has his first durable affair, goes on dialectical sprees with his Red Uncle Jesse, acquires a becoming pinkness. He captures a U. S. multimillionheiress, experiences life among the shrieking rich on Long Island's South Shore, turns...