Word: lulu
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...told me he was going to let Julius go. We decided that instead of having a press conference to announce it, the best way would be just to tell everyone over the air." Stanton added thoughtfully: "Maybe this was a mistake." If it was a mistake, it was a lulu...
...kind of event to date the beginning of a new era. But the men who watched the test-including a sailor who drew a diagram of the explosion in his letter (see NEWS IN PICTURES)-caught the meaning better than any of the headlines. They simply called the explosion "Lulu...
...years just before World War II, Lulu took a transport-pilot's license, went to work in the front office of Lufthansa, and joined the Luftwaffe reserve as a pilot. He found his progress blocked at every turn by the Nazis, who feared, he says, to let him become prominent lest he revive royalist feeling in the Reich...
Dearborn Advice. Just before war came, Lulu married Grand Duchess Kira, one of the last of the Romanovs. Through the war, they lived mostly on the family's East Prussian farm with their growing brood of princes and princesses (there are seven of them now). In 1940, when brother Wilhelm was killed in action in Flanders, Lulu became the Hohenzollern heir in his stead. In 1944 he barely escaped the Russian advance, and almost got nabbed by the Nazis too for knowing a thing or two (not much more) about the bomb plot on Hitler's life...
...Lulu says nothing about his chances for the German throne, and he gives the impression that he is not wasting much effort in that direction. He seems to be following a shrewd piece of advice that was given him one day by a Ford employee at Dearborn: "Louis, my boy," he said, "never forget this. If you keep your [backside] flat on the ground, you cannot fall very...