Word: germane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade that began with the rumble of German Panzer divisions and the whine of Stuka dive bombers came to an end last week with a few words in Washington. It was just ten years after the invasion of Poland, four years after the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, and an appropriate occasion for summing up-the kind that President Harry Truman rarely lets slip by unnoticed...
...moved to the adjoining room to see a 16-mm. American film with German subtitles, called Yours Forever-an export version of Mrs. Parkington. It dealt with millionaires who had squandered their own lives and their ancestor's hard-earned money. The opening shot showed children singing carols in front of a mansion. A blase woman dripping in furs brushes half of them off and asks the butler to sweep the rest away. Then she pours herself a large shot of liquor. Tito nudged me. "Whisky!" he said...
Filmed on German locations, Male War Bride uses well-photographed landscapes as backdrops for its pratfalls and manages somehow to turn occupied Germany into a comic-opera set, peopled by quaint peasants and toy soldiers. With no dialogue worthy of deft Comedian Grant, it makes its major bid for comedy by turning him into a female impersonator...
...army needed combat intelligence in a hurry, it usually sent out none but hand-picked "Joes." This fast-moving novel, which won the first $15,000 award of the Catholic Society of the Christophers (TIME, April 14, 1947), tells what happened when the army dropped three volunteers behind the German lines in the last winter of fighting...
...Giorgio climbed tirelessly up & down the mountainside, ministering to the flock. For the children he organized picnics and games, in which he himself joined. He made a bowling green for the men, and bowled with them. Villagers remembered how, after war's end, three youths wandered into a German minefield and Don Giorgio walked in boldly to give them help...