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...happened because the Army had placed in charge of the prison a pompous, unimaginative, and thoroughly likable officer who wasn't up to his job. Colonel Burton C. Andrus loved that job. Every morning his plump little figure, looking like an inflated pouter pigeon, moved majestically into the court, impeccably garbed in his uniform and highly shellacked helmet. His bow to the judges as they entered was one of the sights of Nürnberg. He loved to pen little notes: "The American Colonel invites the distinguished French prosecutor and his staff to accompany him to a baseball game...
Faith & Works. For this favorable situation, pious Nazis thanked their landlubber Führer, who had built ships when Goring was bawling for more airplanes and Guderian for more tanks. But they also thanked a short-legged pouter pigeon of a man named Erich Raeder...
Although the operatic baritone and the contralto (whose first cinemappearance is, nevertheless, impressive) handle the skittish libretto like a pair of pouter pigeons, they are quite at home in their singing roles. The Straus melodies (My Hero, Sympathy, the title song, etc.), written originally for a lyric soprano and a tenor, have been rearranged and somewhat streamlined. Better are some of the picture's other tunes, Moussorgsky's Song Of The Flea (courtesy of Mr. Eddy), Saint-Saens' My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Miss Stevens), and Wagner's Evening Star (duet...
Last week Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler was proud as a pouter pigeon. Having proved strangely inept as a cop, he redeemed himself as a superb detective-story author. Serially, from day to day, he released his mystery thriller, The Bürgerbräu Plot...
Number one is short shock headed, and a Senior. He looks like a pouter pigeon in his football uniform. For two years he plugged away on the Jayvees as blocking back and guard, and got his chance on the Varsity this fall. After the Penn game Dick Harlow said, "He was out manned. I thought the Penn guards would ride him into the Charles River...