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Up the winding road from Berchtesgaden surged Adolf Hitler's six-wheel staff car. At the bronze gates beneath the brooding Berghof, Hungary's Regent Nicholas Horthy climbed stiffly out, entered the rock, rode 300 feet straight up through granite to the aerie's hushed reception hall...
Funniest shot : Danny reading the famed invitation which begins: "Greetings from the President . . ." and flinching like a beaten boxer as, word by word, the draft summons talks at him in Franklin Roosevelt's velvety, fireside inflections.
Best story is Rudolph Umland's fantastic folk tale, Phantom Airships of the Nineties, about the great airship illusion in the corn belt. Airships were rarer than passenger pigeons when in 1890 Nebraskans first began to see mysterious lights in the night sky. Soon they saw airships flying "with...
Foot was out as editor of the Standard. He had been disclosed as "Cassius," author of last month's Tory-scorching bestseller, The Trial of Mussolini, in which the defense summons Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Sir Samuel Hoare, Viscount Simon and many another resounding name as...
The Methodist Church last week took the first step in a big project. From the Church's Manhattan headquarters went copies of a poster (see cut) painted by famed artist Howard Chandler Christy (Artist Christy is a Christian Scientist; his wife is a Methodist), which will eventually go up...