Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Forget . . ." One recent advertiser, Gerhardt Stumm, a plump, 31-year-old salesman, paid extra (minimum rate: about 50? a week) to get a picture of the Bavarian Alps in his "love-wanted" ad. It ran: "What fraulein would like to go on a two-week holiday to Bavaria by automobile, all expenses paid? Congenial and well-to-do gentleman seeks blonde at least five feet tall, not older than 23. She must not wear glasses." Stumm received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm...
...honest confession on behalf of higher brass, Colonel George S. Eyster, deputy chief of the Army Public Information Division, called the whole thing a "faux pas." Said the colonel: the report had been "improperly edited," and should never have been put out "with the philosophy that Americans might well look askance at their neighbors." The Army, he said, had no evidence of spying by Stein or Miss Smedley, and it was not a U.S. policy to "tar and feather people without proof." Journalist Smedley said she was grateful, but added: ". . . the retraction rarely catches up with...
...torments of the damned in the past few weeks, I can now view with some degree of objectivity my own sorry failure ... I accepted the post with no thought of misappropriation. The first audit was sketchy . . . Subsequent audits found me in varying degrees of embarrassment, but since I was never pinned down, I became . . . amazingly nonchalant about the whole matter, believing, alas, the money would be easily replaced without public scandal or personal discredit...
...Congregationalist minister from Seville, Ohio. He was progressive, and even accepted Darwin's version of Genesis. As a little girl, Anna Louise Strong believed in a lot of things. First, she recalls, she went for the idea that every human being has a soulmate; but she never found one. Then she believed that she could crowd a thousand lives into one lifetime-to be "a North Pole explorer, a great writer, a mother of ten." She turned out to be none of these things...
Vasili Kivlenko, who spent part of his five years at Magadan "transit" camp. He recalled: "All those physically weak were doomed; they soon fell sick and never recovered . . . Scurvy was widespread and the tents were particularly foul-smelling from scurvy and frost wounds-sweet from rotting flesh...