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Down the swank Avenida Alvear marched two blue-uniformed police. Of all improbable places, they stopped at the home of Sr. Federico (Fritz) Mandl, Austrian-born, Argentine-naturalized munitions magnate, arrested him "by order of the President," and whisked him off to Buenos Aires' gloomy Grenadier's Barracks. Simultaneously, the Government decreed the expropriation of IMPA, Mandl's ambitious arms factory. It was the most astonishing event in Argentina's busy week...
Fritz & Hedy. Fritz Mandl was the scion of Austria's pre-Anschluss Hirtenberg Arms factory. In Vienna of the 1920's he acquired notoriety as a young viveur who gambled for high stakes, and kept fancy apartments. His grande affaire was Second Wife Hedy Kiesler (Lamarr) of Ecstasy fame...
Fritz & the Colonels. In the New World, Fritz Mandl operated with splashy grandeur. The closets of his Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Llao-Llao, and Mar del Plata establishments held 278 suits. His garages sheltered two Rolls-Royces, three Minervas and an Isotta-Fraschini. His parties featured double magnums of champagne and scarce green chartreuse...
Avenida Corrientes, the local Broadway, was dimmed to save electricity; locomotives eked out their coal with wood and corn-on-the-cob. Excepting such details, the war had brought nothing but boom to Buenos Aires. Legitimate businessmen prospered; well-heeled opportunists fattened. Hard-eyed Fritz Mandl, fabulous Austrian munitions magnate and former husband of Hedy Lamarr, had a new and equally beautiful wife. Hand-in-glove with the militarists, he manufactured weapons the U.S. would not supply, and kept Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, exiled Austrian bullyboy...
Married. Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiesler), 28; and John Loder, 45, British-born actor; each for the third time; same day he divorced his second wife; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Vienna-born cinemactress' first two ecstasies were Austrian Munitions-Maker Fritz Mandl and American Scenarist Gene Markey...