Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward VIII confessing that Wallis Simpson of Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph Stalin promising death to the invading Nazis, and the stentorian challenge of Churchill, rallying his little island against a continent...
Four blocks from Munich's Brown House, the crumbled cornerstone of Naziism, the U.S. Military Government runs Germany's biggest publishing plant. Once its giant presses spewed forth Hitler's venomous Völkischer Beobachter; now they supply Germans with news of a democratic flavor. No force-feeding is needed: Die Neue Zeitung, a thrice-weekly paper; Heute, a picture magazine; Der Monat, a political monthly; and Neue Auslese, a cultural digest, all sell like piping-hot Kartoffelpuffer...
...paper has greater influence; only Die Welt (circ. 900,000), sponsored by the British military government, is bigger. The Zeitung subscribes to A.P., U.P., I. N.S. and Reuters, and most of its six oversized pages are devoted to news and thoughtful comment on world events; even a good Munich murder has to fight for space. Until the Russians banned Western zone publications last summer, the Zeitung sold 300,000 copies in the Soviet zone alone. Now its circulation (at 6? a copy) is 840,000 in the U.S., British and French zones...
...Munich, Publisher Felix Buttersack moaned: "What shall I do?" Two hours after the polls closed, his newspaper, Merkur, had scooped Bavaria with the headline: THOMAS E. DEWEY-AMERICA'S NEW PRESiDENT.† Merkur carried a vivid account of how the victorious Governor Dewey had thanked the people in a radio address. Buttersack said he had simply trusted the polls. "What," added Felix Buttersack, "is Dr. Gallup going...
...experience with a woman, a prostitute; but it leaves him with a disease that alternately retards and heightens his work and leaves him a senile wreck at the end. Perhaps the best and most readable section of Faustus describes Adrian's years in a rustic Bavarian retreat near Munich. Mann's description of Munich's cultural and pseudo-intellectual crowd between wars, and their stiff-necked, neurotic Kultur helps explain how an Austrian fanatic got them to eat out of his hand...