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...file of the evidence, prepared by the trial's original prosecutor, handsome, 34-year-old Heinz Perscheid, who fled to West Germany last August rather than proceed with the case. Perscheid's dossier was dynamite. It proved that the Red's judicial masquerade was staged to smash the Liberal Democratic Party, to which the defendants belonged, because it had refused to collaborate with the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party. Perscheid had received special tutelage from Fritz Lange, chairman of East Germany's State Control Commission. Perscheid quoted Lange as telling him: "The prosecution and court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like Notes from a Flute | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Though long a popular draw in theater and nightclubs, Durante was never a top smash in either radio or movies (see CINEMA) . It now seems clear that TV was invented, in part at least, as a frame for his special talents. The dynamic Durante personality, a sort of mixture of W. C. Fields and Donald Duck, triumphs over old routines and standard jokes. In an opera cloak and top hat, he achieves a Chaplinesque dignity as he insists that Tannhäuser is by Puccini, and in his shocked horror at an ill-bred friend who, says Durante in moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: One-Man Show | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Captain Dave Nathan's Winthrop football team played alert football yesterday afternoon to defeat Davenport, 12 to 0. Dick Manning scored in the opening minutes of the game on an 80 yard off tackle smash, and Walt Greeley passed to Jim Fykoff for the extra point. Frank Hernberg passed to John deSaint Phalle for the final score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four House Football Squads Triumph Over Yale Colleges | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

Lowell opened its game against Dudley with a strong offense that produced a touchdown after three first downs. The march started on the Lowell 45 with a 25 yard off-tackle smash by Ted Briggs and ended with Bruce White going over for the score from the three yard line. Dudley's Paul deVergie blocked the conversion. Bellboy Bill Brown scored off-tackle on the last play of the first period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Lowell Win Football Finales | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

This year's theatre season has turned up no smash hits so far. The best entertainment in both plays and musicals is left over from last season; chances are if a show holds on for more than a year, it's worth seeing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glittering Gotham Beckons to Pleasure Seekers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

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