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...Fred Kaltenbach, from Iowa. Fred had a "letter" he wanted to read, to an old pal back home named Harry. Soon Fred got into the tall corn. One night he signed off with: "Well, Harry old man . . . give my regards to the folks back home in Ottumwa and Waterloo." At this CBS's ears pricked-a clue. Then, around Thanksgiving time, Fred said "punkin." That settled it. He was a real American. Every Monday night thereafter, at 8:30 EST, Fred would pop up on the German short wave with a new "Dear Harry" letter...
Last week, after considerable earnest fact-finding, CBS had all the dope on Fred. He was Butcher John Kaltenbach's boy, from Waterloo, the one who went to Berlin in 1936 to get his Ph.D., married a German girl named Dorothea Peters from the staff of Hermann Goring's aviation magazine, and signed up with the Nazi propaganda staff...
Since then his only trip home was last May, when the German Government paid his fare over so he might see his dying father. Waterloo Rotarians paid him $25 to address them. When Fred's pro-Nazi beliefs had all been aired, one member blurted, "If you like Nazi Germany so well, why don't you go back there and stay?" Said Fred...
...them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long as we keep on the way we are going now, we won't need to worry about the outcome...
...Jack Hylton's orchestra. His specialty: English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion at Blackpool zoo, moving his outraged parents to lament...