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Along with the authentic news from the perishing Third Reich came a rash of rumors and "reports." The dizziest to reach print was whelped by the unreliable "Free German Press Service," operated in Stockholm by Germans who call themselves "emigres" F.G.P.S.'s latest gasp: The "Hitler" who was in Berlin was not Hitler at all. It was a Plauen grocer named August Wilhelm Bartholdy, whose face was his misfortune: he looked like the Führer. Grocer Bartholdy, said F.G.P.S., had been carefully coached and combed, then sent to Berlin "to die on the barri cades. ... He will...
...real and lasting harm" with his "sham grandeurs" than "any other individual that ever wrote." Today, few Americans suspect how many thousands of native place names are directly or indirectly Sir Walter's. "Poetic" names built around glen, dale, vale, hurst, mere and burn broke out like a rash in the late 1800s; soon they enclosed many cities "like a ring of outer fortifications," protecting them from such vulgarisms as creek, gap, bottom and bluff. "Even if a city-dweller could escape moving to the suburbs [of Larchmont, Glen Cove and Scarsdale] in his life, he was nevertheless very...
...recent rash of sunshine in Beantown has caused such stalwarts as "Iron Phil" Masquelette and "Terrible Ted" Marchese to shed their lining in favor of the garb of a horsehider and to play a little ball. Some of us, you see, are a little more athletic than others. Good weather brought with it a few aches and pains in the form of early morn exercises, courtesy of the athletic department, and dismayed Messrs. Sinberg and Lifschultz of "left side first" notoriety. Combining a fanatical desire and his bull strength, Kevin "the Bull" O'Donnell makes mad tracks daily...
German measles (rubella), as most adults know it, is a pipsqueak disease which produces only a rash and a mild fever. But if pregnant women catch it, it can give their unborn babies heart disease, cataracts, bad teeth or even make them deaf mutes or idiots. Many such children die in the first few weeks of life. These frightening facts, which have just begun to worry baby doctors, were thoroughly aired last week by Manhattan's Dr. Philip M. Stimson, speaking before the New York Academy of Medicine...
Copy desks rose to the occasion with a rash of rhymes on the Big Three meeting. The Knoxville News-Sentinel...