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...news again. The U.S. filed a tax lien against him for $121,858 allegedly owing on last year's income. Sean, his two-and-a-half-year-old son, got his foot caught in a drainpipe in Newport (where he was winding up the summer with his mother, Lili Damita), had to be sawed free by police and firemen...
...last winter the Belgrade broadcasters felt that perhaps the tune was being overplayed. They tried a new and hopeful theme song, "Es geht Alles vorüber, es geht Alles vorbei" ("Everything will be over, everything will be past"). But subversive parodies soon caused Propaganda Minister Goebbels to order Lili Marleen back on the air again...
Outside the Third Reich, Lili Marleen has gone through various metamorphoses. The British changed it into a sentimental song. The Danes and Norwegians made up verses in which Hitler swung from Marleen's lamppost. Following this cue, the OWI has prepared a version for possible future use in propaganda broadcasts to Germany. Sample stanza...
...know, Lili Marleen? Do you know, Lili Marleen...
...last week Lili Marleen, perhaps the Tipperary of World War II, had yet to be played...