Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tall, elegantly tailored Axel Springer, 45, owns outright three thriving dailies and two Sunday papers with total circulation of more than five million. They reach their readers in editions published from teletype-linked plants in Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Frankfurt and Munich. Springer also publishes five magazines (total circ. 4,680,000) that range from the weekly Das Neue Blatt, a sex-spiced gossip sheet, to Hör zu! (Listen!), a TV-radio weekly whose 2,600,000 sales top all other German magazines...
...Hindsight. In 1937, a badly-scared Hanfstaengl fled Germany, convinced that the Nazi "wild men" were about to kill him. He spent World War II shuttling between British detention camps and the U.S., now lives in Munich...
Putzi's book, probably his last attempt to capitalize on his career as Naziism's foremost political pianist, often reads like an edition of Munich Confidential. Politically and morally, it has the usual 20-20 hindsight. Its value for future historians will lie mostly in the gossipy anecdotes that show Hitler in his moments of off-platform relaxation-some of them very comic, as when Adolf, after the failure of the beer hall Putsch, threatens to commit suicide, but allows himself to be easily disarmed by Hanfstaengl's pregnant wife...
Despite such quiet programing, there have been occasions of high drama in the history of Vatican radio. In 1938, four hours before the Munich pact was signed, aged (81), ailing Pius XI told the world: "We offer our life, this poor earthly life that peace may win." Two years later his successor, Pope Pius XII, began to stretch Vatican neutrality to the breaking point by using the radio to lash out at Naziism. broadcast sermons to the warring world...
Sensing the Mystic. Religion of a far less earthbound frame was also a prime concern of Germany's Blane Reiter (Blue Rider) group centered at Munich, which strove for what Franz Marc called "sensing the underlying mystical design of the visible world." But what looked like a new dawn for European art quickly clouded with the rumors of war. Wassily Kandinsky began introducing cannons into his abstractions. Paul Klee's expressions of his subconscious began to reflect fear. Klee's Blue Rider painting companion, bean-pole-tall August Macke, painted his somber Farewell, a square filled with...