Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over in Germany, where it had been popular before the war, Coke had just celebrated a triumphant return under the slogan: "Coca-Cola 1st Wieder Da!" (Coca-Cola Is Back!). Once, beer-drinking Germans had thought soft drinks sissified, but the German Coke people licked that by putting ads in the papers proclaiming: "Got a hangover [Katzenjammer]? Drink Coca-Cola...
Paul Weissman and Dusty Burke both scored 3 and 1 victories, while Doug Wilde won his match 2 and 1. Hugh Nawn and Dave German dropped 3 and 1 matches, and Sam Seager lost...
...special feature of the fashionable gathering will be the presentation of the First Annual Cummerbund Cup, to the "most nattily attired outfielder." Presenting the beautiful piece will be Cummer von Bund, head of the German-American Cummer Bund. A check with Mr. Bund's office late last night revealed that he had not yet fixed upon his very correct costume for the occasion, but it was indicated that he will be "so lovely you could...
...make The Big Lift, Writer-Director George (Miracle on 34th Street) Seaton spent nine months of preparation in Germany, three months of shooting on actual locations. He used only two Hollywood actors (Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas), plus a handful of German professionals and a large supporting cast of U.S. Air Force officers & men whom he turned into surprisingly convincing actors portraying themselves...
Seaton's story of two sergeants is also neatly designed to serve his other purposes, and in the main it serves them well: Clift is a good-hearted young Midwesterner who approaches the Germans with naive friendliness, and Douglas is a roughneck who loathes them with a bitterness stored up as a prisoner of war. Clift becomes disillusioned in a love affair with a calculating Berlin girl (Cornell Borchers) who hopes to use him as a passport to the U.S. Douglas is shamed by another German girl (Bruni Lobel) who turns out to be a better democrat than...