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...world's most scenic and storied waterways. It was a commercial route before Christ, and Julius Caesar first spanned it with a bridge in 55 B.C. Along its picturesque banks, flanked by medieval castles, are Drachenfels, the cliff where Siegfried slew his dragon, and the Lorelei rock, where a beautiful siren lured rivermen to their death on the treacherous shoals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Rancid Rhine | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...requests to dramatize daily life on a weekly newsmagazine, NBC last week unveiled its new series, The Name of the Game (Fridays, 8:30-10 p.m., E.D.T.). The show is all about People, a hard-hitting mag staffed with the hard est-hitting newshawks since Steve Wil son and Lorelei Kilbourne cleaned up Big Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programs: The New Season | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...your method of reading a comic book doesn't include careful analysis of the artwork, The Spirit is also funny and well-written. In the current issue, Denny Cok encounters a blonde named Lorelei who lures truck-drivers to their doom, and a Martian bank-teller named Miss Cosmek, who doesn't want to leave Earth. The next issue promises a run-in between The Spirit and a Parisian temptress who calls herself Plaster of Paris...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Return of the Spirit | 7/26/1966 | See Source »

Died. June Walker, 65, who flapped her way to fame in 1926 as the first Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, demonstrated her versatility by playing everything from a brassy prostitute in Waterloo Bridge to a doting mother in Blue Denim; of emphysema; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 11, 1966 | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...just as the Berliner Ensemble was completing a triumphant London engagement, he chose to defect. He easily received a West German passport, a temporary home with his married half-brother outside Cologne, even a job offer. Yet, only eight days after he arrived in the Rhineland's Lorelei-land, he returned to East Berlin. His brother tried to understand. "Christian obviously stood in conflict between his loyalty to the company he loved and his desire to quit East Germany," he said. "I recall a similar experience. In 1945 I was cut off from my armored outfit behind American lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: A Threepenny Tragedy | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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