Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shortly after he came to power, Hitler met healthy, olive-skinned Eva Braun, 20 years his junior, assistant to his official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. For seven years she was Hitler's mistress, with her own apartments in Berlin's Reich Chancellery and at Berchtesgaden. Under her influence he shifted from nightshirts to pajamas. He gave her an engagement ring and bought a custom-built Mercedes intended as a wedding present. But war, not Eva Braun, claimed Adolf Hitler...
Performers on Your Blind Date include a perky songstress, Connie Haines, a funnyman, "Tizzie Lish," a band, the Melodates, recruited from John Scott Trotter's Orchestra, guest comediennes and starlets from the studios. Music and patter are not all. To one lucky mother each week, Mistress of Ceremonies Scully gives a chance to read her own letter to her own son. Distant sons can hear the program by short wave from San Francisco's KGEI. This part of the show is one big reason the soldiers like...
Songs of Vienna (Lotte Lehmann, soprano; Columbia; 6 sides). Mistress of lieder, opera star, novelist. Lotte Lehmann shows another facet of her versatile genius in her intimate, heartfelt singing of these light nostalgic songs of Europe's onetime musical capital...
...Occupied France. They got loose and back to London. For three weeks, in the notorious Cherche-Midi prison in Paris, they experienced solitary confinement, bedbugs, thoughts about suicide. Their jailmates were in for such crimes as tearing down a Nazi poster; firing a cook (who promptly denounced her mistress to the Nazis); saying sales Bodies (two years); helping Polish suspects escape from Paris (20 years). One night Bessy heard a man being terribly beaten up. He was a German soldier. He had criticized the Army...
Halifax is a salt-rimed sailor's town, dependent on the sea for its livelihood, on war for boom prosperity. But Halifax also has a Calvinist moral attitude; Haligonians still squirm when historians recall that Queen Victoria's father flaunted his pretty mistress, Julie, in the face of Halifax society...