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...ulein in satin smirking over drinks in a Munich nightclub. There are samples of humor: anti-Jewish jokes along with bitter comments on the regime ("In Germany teeth are being pulled through the nose because no one can open his mouth any more"). Excerpts from William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary give an American's impression of the scene. The period photographs and cartoons of Nazism aborning, the vivid paintings of rouged whores and marcelled flappers doing the Charleston evoke the era's political menace and cabaret decadence...
Next to its editorial page, the Eagle reprints for its afternoon readers some material from the New York Times Op-Ed Page, but also publishes the work of nearly 20 local columnists; such notables as James MacGregor Burns and William Shirer contribute occasional book reviews. The second section is crammed with items from the 32 communities in Berkshire County, gathered by a network of 23 stringers. Political Editor A.A. Michelson's weekly column on Massachusetts affairs now runs in nine other New England papers, including the Boston Globe...
...over the past 30 years; in Manhattan. Blessed with a gregarious charm and intense curiosity, Gunther first won notice in the 1930s as European correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, filing reports of Germany's relentless march to war that ranked with those of Vincent Sheean and William Shirer. In 1936 Gunther produced the first of his fast-paced, infinitely detailed books, Inside Europe. ("I wrote, among other things, that the Führer was nil sexually" -a bit of lèse-majesté that would have marked him for elimination if he had ever fallen into Gestapo...
...Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss (1) 3. Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (3) 4. Present at the Creation, Acheson (4) 5. The Graham Kerr Cookbook (7) 6. In Someone's Shadow, McKuen (6) 7. The American Heritage Dictionary (5) 8. The Collapse of the Third Republic, Shirer (8) 9. Culture and Commitment, Mead 10. Love and Will...
...Collapse of the Third Republic, Shirer...