Word: partenkirchen
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...bids. When M-G-M demanded that she skate in her pictures, thus losing her amateur status, she hesitated. Then her sound business sense got the better of her. She signed for the tour. Signed with her was 19 year-old British Jack Dunn, who finished fifth at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last month, is now her most persistent companion...
...President Avery Brundage of the American Olympic Committee returning from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, declared in Manhattan: "Germany was very glad to have us at the games and the Government could not have done its part more fairly in living up to all agreements and every Olympic regulation. . . . The organization for the games was perfect. . . . They were remarkably free from bickering...
...tiny Bavarian towns of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where winter makes the little houses look like gingerbread and sugar, the eleven days of skiing, skating, hockey, bobsledding, which compose the Fourth Winter Olympic Games, ended last week...
Adolf Hitler was by no means the only bigwig in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week. His entourage included Air Minister Göring, Minister of Propaganda Goebbels, War Minister von Blomberg, Julius Streicher, Interior Minister Frick, Storm Troop Leader Lutze and almost every other important Nazi in Germany. Nonetheless, Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall of the New York Times, which last autumn gave the loudest bursts of publicity to Jeremiah T. Mahoney's efforts to have the U. S. withdraw from the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Nov. 4), felt justified in writing: ". . . Not the slightest evidence of religious, political or racial...
...holds her in high esteem, entertains romantic admiration for her achievements and her character as a prime example of German womanhood, is apparent to everyone. Functioning as an inspiration both to Herr Hitler and her female contemporaries is a job which, for Cinemactress Riefenstahl, is never done. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, much too occupied to engage in her customary practice of skiing up & down hill in a bathing suit to acquire a tan, she was even busier than usual, keeping an expert Nazi eye on winter sports for Führer Hitler and giving visitors to Germany a startling...