Word: luft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Judy Garland, 30, song & dance star of Hollywood and Broadway, and Sid Luft, 36, Hollywood agent: their first child, a girl; by Caesarean section; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Lorna. Weight...
Marriage Revealed. Judy (Over the Rainbow) Garland, 30, highstrung singing star of screen and vaudeville; and Michael Sidney Luft, 36, her business agent; she for the third time, he for the second; on June 8 in Paicines, Calif...
Though many had tried, none had ever escaped for long from Stalag-Luft III, deep in the heart of Germany. But past failures did not discourage Captain Richard Michael Clinton Codner of the Royal Artillery, a young (23) and bronzed Oxford undergraduate with a mop of black hair and a sensitive, mischievous face. Around the camp he was known as "a classical fellow, always reading Latin and he could spout it by the yard...
...Later on, the German camp authorities became less efficient. In March 1944, using a patiently dug tunnel, some 80 P.O.W.s crushed out of Stalag-Luft III in a single night. Yet only a few escaped from Nazi territory. Of those recaptured, the Germans reported they shot...
...Stalag-Luft III, a prisoner-of-war camp for Allied airmen in Silesia, was a good deal like all the others in 1943. The prisoners spent most of their waking hours planning escapes and digging tunnels; with the help of detection devices the camp guards found the tunnels and headed off the escapes almost every time.* But one spring day Prisoner John Clinton watched a sheet of newspaper hop the camp fence in a gust of wind and got an idea for an escape plan that worked...