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...Nazi press had announced an all-out offensive on Moscow. On Oct. 9 Hitler sent his personal press stooge, Dr. Otto Dietrich, from the front to Berlin to announce to newspapermen that the very last remnants of the Red Army were "locked in two steel German pockets before Moscow and were undergoing swift, merciless annihilation." Dietrich wound up: "And on that, gentlemen, I stake my whole journalistic reputation." Nazi headlines shouted: DIETRICH: CAMPAIGN IN EAST DECIDED. Said the official Völkischer Beobachter: "The strategic decision has already been gained...
...afternoon, people gathered at the funeral home in South St. Louis. It was much like any other American funeral parlor, with stippled walls and dark-painted woodwork, and the sick-sweet smell of wreaths and flowers. There, in a steel casket, the flag draped over, lay the body of Otto J. Weiner Jr., private in the Marines, killed in action on an unnamed Pacific island. American Legionnaires stood guard. A Lutheran pastor spoke the eulogy, said the prayer...
Readying itself to train 1,000 to 3,000 flyers, navigators, bombardiers, A. & M. is now finishing an airport, planning a doubling-up program to fill dormitories four or five deep. Says Aggie President Thomas Otto Walton: "What does the Government want done? We will...
John M. Alcorn, head usher, announced last night that the ushers would be Maxwell P. Aley, Thomas J. Ashton, Otto Bremer, James Conway, Jr., Don Crary, David Harrower, Allen M. Johnson, Robert Keahey, Leonard S. E. Langer, Robert S. Landau, David Levin, Ernest L. Levinger, Donor M. Lion, Arthur S. Littell, James E. McNulty, Jr., Arthur B. MeCormick, Jr., Melvin L. Milligan, H, Maurice M. Osborne, Jr., Francis Park man, Jr., Sidney O. Smith, Jr., John R. Thompson, Andrew H. Wright, and Joseph L. Yarlott...
...melodramatic journey from coast to coast shows Hitchcock at his best. It gives movement, distance and a terrifying casualness to his painful suspense. It leads the hero to the palatial Nevada ranch of the master saboteur (Otto Kruger), into the hands of the police, out of them to an abandoned desert mining town loaded with paraphernalia to blow up Boulder Dam, on to Manhattan and an ironic denouement. The Girl (Priscilla Lane), of course, is picked up en route...