Word: ziemer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denham advocates supervision of German schools by 1,000 or so United Nations inspectors, who would aim to raise a generation of woolly lambs fit to lie down with any lion. Last week a similar idea was expressed in Princeton's Public Opinion Quarterly by Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, who once ran the American Colony School in Berlin (1928-39), then wrote Education for Death (Hitler's Children on the screen). Said Ziemer...
Frenzied Finance. When Gregor Ziemer's book Education for Death was en capsulated in Reader's Digest (February 1942), Hollywood had already passed it up. But one Manhattan movie man was interested. He was Edward A. Golden, a chubby, John Bunnyish old gentleman who had been a dentist for five years, a film distributor for 30. Distributor Golden had taken a shy at production not long before with a for-adults-only sermon on syphilis entitled No Greater Sin. The minute Golden read Education he knew it would make a picture. He even knew the title: Hitler...
...Ziemer: "You're a phony...
...first blow struck. Ziemer swears he did nothing but fend off his assailant. Alcott says: "I took him." A studio guard intervened, ordered Alcott outside and locked the door. Through the door Ziemer understood Alcott to say: "You're a German spy." "That wasn't what I said at all," said Alcott. "I said that sometimes he sounded like a Nazi...
Next day Alcott was no longer working for WLW. (". . . Regrettable . . . highly emotional state of mind. . . .") He went east to see about his forthcoming book, My War With Japan. Ziemer posed for photographers, said he had bruised his hand trying to save himself from hitting the floor after the fracas...