Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week balding, tireless Correspondent Lochner, 58, was hard at it. His latest stories seemed as Sax Rohmerish as the "informed" reports that stream incessantly from the rumor factories of Stockholm, Lisbon and Berne. But many a U.S. editor, recalling Lochner's Pulitzer prestige, gingerly played them deadpan. Sample Lochner...
...Said he knew nothing of German peace feelers, which had been reported from the Stockholm rumor mill...
...Stockholm last week a Spanish missionary just out of Japan told how the Japanese feel after three years...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, whose movie, Step Lively, is making the rounds in unoccupied Europe, caused nary a swoon in Stockholm. One critic reported: "Sinatra's a nice boy . . . but there doesn't seem to be any danger of Sinatra fever...
Adolf Hitler, whose rumored afflictions range from cerebral hemorrhage to an abnormal taste for cutting rugs with his bicuspids, was reported by the Stockholm Morgon-Tidningen to have a new ailment: ear trouble, brought on by last July's attempted assassination. Hitler's hearing, said Stockholm, is so impaired that he can "no longer judge the sound of his words, nor can he use tones of irony or contempt, or his famous false heartiness...