Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month on charges of war crimes committed while he was military governor of Belgium, last week was a free man. The Belgian government released the 72-year-old prisoner, after crediting him with the six years served before he came to trial. Before dawn, Falkenhausen hurried to the German border, where he told newsmen: "I will go to friends and to my dogs who surely wait for me." As for German participation in European defense: "I can't imagine myself fighting shoulder to shoulder with contingents whose military leaders today condemn German generals." Into the "visitors' book...
...Horst Lommer, German author and topflight Red propagandist, who sought refuge in Berlin's West sector, "disappointed and ashamed...
...days later, more trouble broke out at Dreilinden, on the line between the Russian zone and the Western sectors of Berlin. A woman in an automobile screamed for help. After West German police had rescued her, she said that she was Johanna Buechner, 30, secretary of the former East German Minister of Heavy Industry, Fritz Selbermann. She had fled to the Western sector, and the two East German police in the automobile had kidnaped her and were taking her back to the Russian area. The Western police arrested one of the East German policemen. Slamming down the zone barrier...
...Michigander of Scottish-German ancestry, Norman Bel Geddes has been, among other things, actor, producer, director, stage designer and author. The big brownstone house on Manhattan's East 37th Street in which Barbara spent her early childhood saw an endless stream of visitors from many worlds. It was Norman's studio as well as his home, and on the upper floors busy draftsmen and artisans were always hard at work, assembling stage models, cutting out rubber animals for a Macy parade, drawing up plans for a restaurant, or laying out production schedules for some new show...
...film is a close approximation of the original. It is divided, in a manner that seems a little artificial for a motion picture, into a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue. In the prologue Hoffmann, a student in an ancient German university city, tells of his love for the ballerina Stella. Later, in Luther's Tavern, he falls into a reverie and tells his fellow students the three tales of his "folly of love...