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Modell alleged that the Rams had lured away the Browns' assistant coach Ray Prochaska, who resigned suddenly last week and turned up on the staff of the new L.A. coach, Chuck Knox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWNS' BLUES | 2/28/1973 | See Source »

...letter, whose 57 signatures took up much more space than its text, was delivered to the Army's Adjutant General in Washington. Wrote the citizens of Monroe County, Mich.: "Please permit Private Prochaska to return home. The grain now is ripening and he is the only one in these parts who can run a threshing machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Thresher Wanted | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

Last week, Monroe County's wheat farmers got what they asked for. In Fort Sheridan, Ill., Private John V. Prochaska, 210th Coast Artillery, packed his barracks bag, slung it over a khaki shoulder, waved good-by to his battery. Monroe County's only threshing-machine owner and operator had a 30-day furlough to winnow the grain for his home county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Thresher Wanted | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

These two meet while climbing mountains in the Tirol. Dr. Prochaska of Feldbruck is an impassioned adherent of Hitler to whom the mountains offer an almost mystic attraction: "It had been these mountains here and the others like them that all his life had wooed him from the streets and the houses as the thought of women wooed him. He knew their sloping icy shoulders. . . . He knew the chains of them well; the Ortler group with the tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nazi Idyll | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...love affair of Dr. Prochaska and Pendennis involves much political talk, a skiing trip on which they light fiery crosses and evade the authorities, a night in a mountain cabin where the doctor ministers to a sick child, the bombing of a news paper office. Their idyll ends somewhat inconclusively with the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss. Having left the doctor suddenly, become mixed up in homosexual circles in Vienna, Pendennis realizes that he will need her when she hears of the failure of the Nazi putsch, starts back for Feldbruck. They do not meet again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nazi Idyll | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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