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...Hitler, was a good-looking young blueblood named Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. He was a fascist when the world barely knew what the word meant. In 1923, he stood by Hitler's side in the unsuccessful Munich beer hall Putsch. Back in Austria, he was fond of bleating such sentiments as: "We have much in common with the German Nazis . . . Austria will go fascist sooner or later. Better sooner than later . . . Asiatic heads [meaning Jews] will soon roll in the sands." In 1934, his green-shirted private army, the Heimwehr (Home Guard), attacked social democratic Vienna...
...that the staunchly Roman Catholic citizens had anything against the Dominicans. Ever since monks of the order founded their monastery in 1858, the farm folk had grown more & more fond of them. To Huissen's sandy soil the Dominicans brought vines and seedlings, and they persuaded the peasants to change from tobacco growing to truck farming. To Huissen's people they brought what seemed to be a wiser, less worldly understanding of the secrets of the confessional. Even those who still went to Mass at one of Huissen's two parish churches began to bring their sins...
Sonya Klopfer, 17, of Long Island City, N.Y., a solid little brunette who is fond of malteds and doughnuts, got her first name, despite the difference in spelling, out of her mother's unbounded admiration for Sonja Henie. Sonya specializes in free-style skating-"The finest free skater of her age in the world today," said the conservative British Skating World, after her third-place performance in the 1951 World Championship. Sonya is the current North American and U.S. titleholder...
...fired from the Digest. One man in the London office was reluctantly let go only after he had failed to show up for eight weeks. The Wallaces, being childless, have no desire to accumulate great wealth. "The dead," Wallace is fond of saying, "carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away." His father lived to be 90, and at 62, Wallace is going strong. But in preparation for the day their turn comes, he and Lila are gradually turning over their stock to a charitable
Mink for the Throat. Now that she has become a successful madcap onstage, she is a more serious character when she is off. But she is still passionately fond of fishing and sailing, and runs off to the country whenever she can. Her life in Manhattan is an exacting round of lessons, rehearsals, fittings and photographs. She conscientiously answers her mail, and seldom" fails to get off a cheery quarterly letter to the Princess Patter, a mimeographed magazine published by her teen-age fan club (Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple, Risë Stevens, Jan Peerce are honorary members...