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Year ago the New Republic described bullocky Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime Nazi publicist, as "Hitler's boy friend." Last week Putzi, exiled in London, lost a libel suit against Selfridge & Co., department store which sold his secretary a copy containing the article. The judge, commenting, "Hanfstaengl will leave this court with as clean a character as . . . any man could have," ruled that nobody had libeled Putzi, assessed him the costs of the case...
...became great pals with Rolf Diels, the Chief of the Secret Police, who looked like a Hollywood gangster, with "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, who swore that she was just the woman Hitler needed. (He introduced her to the Führer, but nothing came of it.) She attended the Reichstag trial, other social events that were much duller...
...they came, class after class, holding aloft such jibes as The moribund life, How red the Roose, Richard Whitney, Franklin Roosevelt, Putzi Hanfstaengel-All good Harvard men-you can have them. Conspicuous was the class of '28, dressed as Snow White (9-year-old Class Baby Barbara Chase) and the 200 Dwarfs, because it carried no anti-Roosevelt placards. The class of '18, originally planning to play John Barleycorn in barrels, at the last moment added top hats and spats and called themselves Economic Royalists. A HARVARD MAN, said one of their signs, DID THIS...