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...their respective bailiwicks it might have been possible thus to present Hitler, Hirohito or Stalin, accompanied by the Horst Wessel song, Kimyjayo, or the Internationale. In this case, however, the apotheosis was being accorded to Frank Sinatra. The tune he was singing might well have been Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending, but was in fact called The Music Stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1944 | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Timely Figure | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...Beethoven was the greatest of all march composers. Most dangerous: the composer of the Horst Wessel song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vive Sousa! | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Then everyone sings Deutschland Uber Alles and the Horst Wessel song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Nazi Marriage Service | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Divorced. By Helen Lee Eames Doherty Wessel, stepdaughter of the late multimillionaire utilitycoon Henry L. Doherty: Theodore William Wessel, former Danish Chargé d'Affaires in Santiago; seven years after marriage; in West Palm Beach. Her extravagant Washington debut in threadbare 1930 was the target of Congressional criticism; party favors for some of the guests were automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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