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...Nazis had names for the separate parts of the Great Conspiracy. The name for the seizure of Austria was "Plan Otto," for Czechoslovakia "Plan Green," for France "Plan Red," for Poland "Case White," for Russia "Barbarossa Contingency...
...shiny sedan sang until it slowed for the turn into the White House drive. As the big machine stopped, with the air of quiet pomp that only official cars achieve, the wind bent trees out across the wide, wet lawns. The burly man in the back seat-Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet-did not appear to notice. He had arrived punctually at 1 o'clock; he got out quickly, and walked into the executive mansion, looking straight ahead...
...prize for chemistry went to pioneer atom-splitter Professor Otto Hahn, 66, lately of Berlin. Hahn came to the U.S. in 1933 to lecture for one year at Cornell. He is believed to be in the U.S. at the present time, under different circumstances. Where he is now, U.S. scientists cannot say and Government authorities will not say. If he is one of the German scientists imported to the U.S. as "human reparations," it will be the first time a Nobel prize has been awarded to a virtual prisoner of war. When Professor Hahn did his first atom-splitting...
...list of witnesses was impressive. First on deck will be officers who were on the scene at the time, i.e., Admiral Kimmel and General Short, followed by Admiral James Otto Richardson, stubborn prewar advocate of the theory that the Japs would be hard to beat, who was succeeded by the more optimistic Admiral Kimmel ten months before Pearl Harbor...
Fallen Angel (20th Century-Fox) drags its feathers through an hour and a half of melodramatic fiddle-faddle that is just promising enough to sharpen the edge of disappointment. Good direction by Otto (Laura) Preminger and competent acting cannot quite save a picture whose whole is far more trivial than the sum of its individual parts...