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...first installment, Fox alone has taken six years of work. To underpin his imagination, Hughes read through the entire Nürnberg trial transcript, traveled to Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Poland to interview "dozens" of people who knew Hitler personally in the Munich days-including a boy who used to call Hitler "Uncle Dolph." His prize find: an old newspaper file containing the diary of a participant in the 1923 Munich putsch...
...field in 1948 by founding the tabloid Mirror. The odds on survival seemed good. The Chandlers control a wealthy empire consisting of holdings in real estate, oil, timber, a paper mill, a vast cattle ranch, an insurance firm and Los Angeles television station KTTV. There were millions available to underpin their new paper in its deliberate campaign to wrest afternoon readership away, from Hearst's Herald-Express, a flamboyant blend of blaring headlines, race results, and juicy sex and crime stories. Self-styled as an independent-Republican daily, the new Mirror contrasted sharply with the stout, dull Times...
...result, the U.S. must follow a policy that will not rebuff a real change for the better, but will not expose the nation to mortal danger. "Fortunately," said the Secretary of State, "we have basic assets, material and moral," to underpin that policy...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, who left the University of Chicago to underpin the Ford Foundation, made an appearance at a credit-men's convention in San Francisco and unburdened himself of some random thoughts on the lurking perils of 100% Americanism: "To hear these people [i.e., superpatriots] talk, you would think that the American way consisted of unanimous tribal self-admiration . . . There is a present danger that critics of even the mildest sort will be frightened into silence ... I sometimes think we are approaching the point where it will be impossible for one person to be seen with another person...