Word: ww
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About fifteen minutes into the picture, a television set presents us with a sublime moment from Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat, starring Karloff and Lugosi. Lugosi plays Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a tortured psychoanalyst imprisoned during WW I by the villainous General Poelzig (Karloff) who, in turn, married and murdered Werdegast's wife Karen. Werdegast, after fifteen years in the prison from which few men return ("I have returned," he says gravely at one point), journeys to Poelzig's house to investigate Karen's death and eventually kill the murderer. Through a nasty turn in the weather...
...writer served in U.S. Regular Army for more than 30 years. He served in WWI as a combat officer and was decorated by the French and U.S. governments for gallantry in action. As a staff officer in WW II, he was awarded the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal and the French Legion of Honor for this service...
...Korean who has lived through WW II, the current events in Red China [Sept. 2] are too vividly reminiscent of the prewar hysteria in Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. Both regimes sought scapegoats in what were considered to be foreign elements in their cultural, economic, religious and racial framework, and sought to justify their war effort as a national crusade against them. If the current frenzy in Red China is indeed the sign of a country preparing for war, God help...
...Mirror, his base paper, or in the 140-odd other U.S. papers that take his column. On Nov. 17, in Winchell's space, the Mirror carried the byline of Winchell's customary summer replacement, slight, snappish Lee ("New York Confidential") Mortimer. With the shift went an explanation : "WW is ill with a staph infection. He will resume his column when he feels better. Meanwhile, Lee Mortimer's column will appear in this space." But as the weeks wore on, even this vague promise vanished, leaving readers to wonder whether Winchell was ever coming back...
...Gossipist Walter Winchell's column last week appeared a plentifully dotted, plenty cozy account of a meeting between WW and a celeb who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DeeCee: "We witnessed the President deliver his oration in the White House on his adventures in Paris with Khrushchev. A thrilling experience...