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Rehder and Twaddell's faithful transcription of Mrs. Reiff's remarks has undoubtedly the modern German Volksgeist encaptured. And that is a major service. Zum wohl, die Herrnl
...will continue for the rest of his life. The cardboard plot grinds on to the boy's inevitable discovery of what his true love does for a living. When they break up, her grief is touching, and so is his ignorance. It should be added that Writer Burton Wohl's dialogue is excellent, even though his story is deficient. The lines have the unlovely clack of reality, and hearing Actors Albright and Marlowe say them is closer to hiding under the sofa than anything else in films this summer...
Died. Louis de Wohl, 58, prolific, German-born biographer of the saints (among them: St. Augustine in The Restless Flame, St. Francis Xavier in Set All Afire) and part-time London astrologer hired in 1940 by the British War Office to try to duplicate the advice Hitler was receiving from his stargazers; of heart disease; in Lucerne. Asked about his secret wartime weapon. Prime Minister Churchill once explained, "Why should Hitler have a monopoly on astrologers...
...Communist East Germany that even the Communists are talking publicly about it. Fortnight ago, submitting East Germany's 1961 economic goals to the party's Central Committee, top Politburo Planner Bruno Leuschner asked rhetorically: "Do we have difficulties?" Dourly, he answered himself: "Ja-wohl, we do." He ticked them off: "Unsatisfactory raw material supplies." "no more labor reserves," "failure to achieve a continuous supply of consumer goods...
...Conformists, by Jack Wohl (P. S. Books; $1). Almost no text, pictures or humor: the gimmick is that colored balls, squares and triangles say things to each other. Orange ball to orange lump: "Tell me, Harriet, did you ever think of wearing a girdle...