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...stiff-necked hell-roarer, the Nazi's No. 1 engineer is a soft-spoken handsome man of 49 who prefers the tweed coat, breeches and boots of an engineer on the job to his medal-decked Storm Trooper's uniform. Seldom seen in public, he spends the time he can spare from his multiplicity of jobs in Munich with his wife and five children. Subordinates like his lack of ceremony, call him "our Doctor...
...head of the Press Section of the Propaganda Ministry and spokesman for the Government at the Propaganda Ministry's press conferences, disappeared about three weeks ago. The day after the Hess flight police rounded up 20 truckloads of men in north Berlin. Many of them were in Storm Trooper uniforms and were being kicked by the Gestapo as they got on the truck...
...loose man with a dollar, the comedian couldn't refuse the tempting increment. For a while the ruse worked. But when he returned from a European trip with his wife a few years later, there was no work for him in Hollywood. That was old stuff to Trooper Oakie...
...ancestor in Britain was a Deveauville who came over with William the Conqueror, and he is the third general in three generations of Wavells. His father was and his son is with the famed Black Watch Regiment. Even his three daughters are in military work, and one is nicknamed Trooper. He is a strong family man who loves the luxury of spare time in his big Cairo house hidden in jacaranda trees behind the third hole of the Gezirah golf course. Finally, he is a reader, a thinker, not just a machine; he has put much thought on a post...
...defense. Announced by the War Department was a $200,000 allotment for Hollywood-made training films-ten-minute shorts to educate doughboys on how to greet an officer, how to don a gas mask, how to load a howitzer, other essentials of soldiering. Picking up its cue like a trooper, the industry called out its restless, time-marking, six-month-old Motion Picture Defense Committee, headed by Paramount Vice President Y. Frank Freeman...