Word: putzi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stone walls do not a prison make," said the poet, "nor iron bars a cage." Tell that to petite Brunette Maria-Christina ("Putzi") von Opel, 28, playgirl heiress to a vast German auto fortune. Last week von Opel found herself behind walls and bars facing a ten-year prison term after a French court in Draguignan found her guilty of financing a 1977 scheme to import Middle East hashish into West Germany, and Italy via Saint-Tropez. Why should an heiress worth $70 million involve herself in a drug ring? Neither von Opel nor any of her seven co-defendants...
Died. Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengel, 88, whose piano playing soothed Adolf Hitler; in Munich. Son of a German art expert, Hanfstaengel was educated at Harvard and in 1921 went back to Germany, where he later became foreign press chief of the Nazi Party. Hanfstaengel broke with Hitler in 1937, spent most of World War II in the U.S., and returned to Germany...
...coverage of a student demonstration against a German cruiser at the Navy Yard. The Journal was trapped into a defense of the status quo in the face of a Crimson expose of the Engineering School; The Crimson in turn, lost popularity with its defense of the right of F.E.S. (Putzi) Hanfstaengl, '09. Hitler's piano player, to return for his 25th reunion. On the whole, the Journal was more a crusading paper. The Crimson more moderate, during the battle...
...have seen that "Putzi" Hanfstaengl brought The Crimson face to face with the specter of Nazism. In 1936, the paper opposed participation in the Munich Games, and continued on an anti-Nazi track from then...