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...rckel, about his No. 1 prisoner, Kurt von Schuschnigg, independent Austria's last Chancellor. Information gleaned: Dr. Schuschnigg will be tried for "high treason" the Nazi regime does not recognize marriage by proxy, hence holds that the last Chancellor's reported marriage in June to the Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, in which the groom was represented by his brother, is not valid:* the Countess was ordered separated from Dr. Schuschnigg because, as a "good Catholic," Commissioner Bürckel "could not tolerate such immorality." Asked if friends were permitted to visit the former Chancellor, the Commissioner coldly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Friendless | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

This little ditty, sung in At Home Abroad by Beatrice Lillie in 1935, might well have been sung in earnest by Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen any time before the Nazification of Austria. Besides having Kurt von Schuschnigg as fiance, she had as fancy a pair of slanting eyes and as sensitive a pair of musical ears as any blonde in the city. She was 33, a moderately gay divorcee, an intelligent conversationalist-and consequently popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: By Proxy | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...link Kurt un-comically with the execution in 1934 of a number of National Socialists who killed his boss, Engelbert Dollfuss. Meanwhile, still a closely-watched prisoner in his Belvedere Castle, Herr Schuschnigg was being permitted the comfort of daily visits from his blonde, 34-year-old fiancee, Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, whose talent for fine music was Schuschnigg's solace following the death of his wife in a motor crash three years ago. But he has few other liberties. "How could we let Schuschnigg go free now?" reasoned solicitous Nazi officials. "He probably would not be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anschluss Art | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Disney,*Okla., a string of shacks and saloons thrown up on the site of PWA's $20,000,000 Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disney | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...plot of I Married An Angel has to do with Count Willy Palaffi (Dennis King), a Budapest banker who, swearing he will marry nothing less than an angel, is forthwith confronted by one (Vera Zorina), wings and all. They wed, but the bride's celestial habit of blurting out the truth stirs up a lot of trouble with the groom's friends and depositors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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