Word: svengali
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...quite do right by AFN. You stated that AFN established stations in Le Havre and Paris for the entertainment of the G.I.s. This is very true, but we also had stations in Marseilles, Nice, Dijon, Nancy, Reims, Biarritz, and Munich, Berlin, Bremen, Kassel and Frankfurt in Germany. These -Svengali, the villain-hypnotist; by Trilby's author and illustrator, George Du Maurier. fixed or permanent stations were also augmented by mobile stations with the ist, 7th, gth and isth Field Armies. We would have had one with General Patton's 3rd Army had it not been for the fact...
However frustrating life may be in U.S. suburbia, life is harder still on such "toasts of Paris." Du Maurier's Trilby died miserably, drugged to the last by Svengali's evil eye. Last week, flabby and 45, her cheeks pasty white and sagging, Kiki shuffled out of the door of La Roquette Prison. Picked up a month ago near the old Dome for peddling narcotics, Kiki was out on bail so that doctors could treat her drug-shattered nerves...
...milder among his opponents, he is a latter-day Richelieu, moving suavely and powerfully behind the scenes, establishing his own court favorites or giving the knife to those fallen from grace. Extreme critics have pictured him as a kind of Svengali, whose sinister influence covers sinister designs on the President and the country. Others say he is a man of no principles who simply acts through (and hides behind) his idolized principal, the President...
...Miss Berry's bush-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott, 77, roared his final plea to the jury. Samples: "This pestiferous, lecherous hound. . . . I'm sorry he isn't here so I could . . . hand it to him right on the chin. . . . Did you ever hear the story of Svengali and Trilby? This fellow is just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt. . . . This fellow doesn't lie like a gentleman. He lies like a cheap Cockney cad. ... That man goes around fornicating . . . with the same aplomb that...
Since Pearl Harbor, 344 Army camps have witnessed the cue work of billiards' No. 1 trick-shot Svengali. Peterson has peregrinated 75,000 miles, given 1,239 exhibitions, walked goo miles around tables making 92,000 fancy shots for his uniformed audiences...