Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WARTIME LETTERS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE-Norton...
...drawing of Cinemactress Maria Ouspenskaya by Ginger Rogers...
Died. Princess Maria of Greece, 64, aunt of Greece's King George II and of the Duchess of Kent, onetime mother-in-law of Tin-Plate Heir William B. Leeds Jr.; of heart disease; in Athens...
Next to go was General ("of the Army for War Merit") Cesare Maria de' Vecchi, Conte di Val Cismon, 56, mighty-mustached Governor of the Dodecanese Islands. One of the original Fascist quad-rumvir- of the 1922 March on Rome, De' Vecchi has even been mentioned as successor to II Duce, but he rated as an administrator rather than a soldier. In his stead, Mussolini appointed lean, hard-boiled General Ettore Bastico, 64, a veteran of the 1911 war with Turkey in which the islands were acquired, veteran also of World War I, Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil...
Soon after Hitler came to power, Joseph Paul Goebbels, Ph.D., asked best-selling Oskar Maria Graf to become his official Nazi novelist. Replied Graf: "What have I done to deserve this disgrace? Burn my books! I would consider it an undying mark of shame if my books were not burned by you." Burned they were, and homeless Novelist Graf has wandered ever since-Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, the U. S. In The Life of My Mother, "a biographical novel," Outcast Oskar Maria Graf seeks a way back to his spiritual verities...