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...lingers in U.S. history is a three-year prison term for evading $1,217,296 in income taxes. That part of the memory, says son Walter, "has been like a whip on my back." The Moe Annenberg that Walter remembers and reveres was a self-made immigrant from East Prussia who started out as a newsboy, became the Hearst chain's circulation director, and left to build a publishing empire on the cornerstone of a racing-wire service he fondly called the "A.P. of racing news...
...lieutenant in Wilhelm II's army. He fought creditably on three fronts in World War I, and by 1929 was a lieutenant general. His first unsavory taste of politics came in 1932, when he was ordered by Chancellor von Papen to oust the Socialist ministers of Prussia; he obeyed. The ranking general when Hitler shortly came to power, von Rundstedt did nothing to hobble the Führer, acquiesced-however unwillingly-in Hitler's assaults on the officer corps. Six years later, he saw his friend and colleague, Werner von Fritsch, sacked and tried on a trumped...
...Amarillo, Texas, Princess Cecilia of Prussia, 35, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm, renounced her title, took her U.S.-citizenship oath and became plain Mrs. Clyde Harris, wife of an interior decorator and former Army captain whom she married in Germany...
...used for God Save the King was already an old one. Some scholars say that Dr John Bull wrote it in 1619; others insist that t was written by the Scottish composer James Oswald in 1742. As far as Smith was concerned however, the tune was a German one-Prussia's Heil Dir im Siegerkranz...
Grace Vanderbilt's most potent social weapon was the cultivation of European royalty, a technique which earned her the nickname "Kingfisher." Her first great coup occurred in 1902, when by request of Kaiser Wilhelm II she was hostess to Prince Henry of Prussia at the only private social function he attended in the U.S. In the years that followed, she entertained the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Crown Prince of Norway, and every British ruler from Edward VII to George VI. By 1915 she had completely routed erratic, sharp-tongued Mrs. Stuyvesant...