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...Jewish paper dealer, had started the company in 1877 when he bought the money-losing Neue Berliner Tageblatt (circ. 4,000). He put it on its feet, bought other moribund newspapers and kept expanding. After his death in 1899, his five sons-Hans, Louis, Franz, Rudolf, Hermann-proved equally shrewd, expanded more. They made one big mistake: they thought Adolf Hitler's Jew-baiting was merely campaign oratory. When they still had time to turn the tremendous power of their newspapers and magazines against the rise of Naziism, the Ullstein brothers did nothing. When Hitler came to power...
...morning Van Riet said with a shrewd laugh, "It must be beautiful to go unclothed in our sun, eh?" (page...
...must be beautiful to go unclothed in the sun," said Marinina, with a shrewd laugh in her eyes ... (page...
Gallant, flamboyant, brilliant, shrewd, unpredictable and seemingly fearless, Jean de Lattre was one of the ablest soldiers of his time and a patriot without qualification. In an increasingly cynical world, he took the words "honor" and "country" seriously. He would literally blanch at the suggestion that all Frenchmen might not instantly rush to the defense of their country at any time. "That is sacrilege, sacrilege!" he would mutter, and his own deep conviction was enough to spur French pride. He had his small vanities: uniforms tailored by Lanvin, an insistence on low-numbered license plates...
...Long Island, has become one of the top record-sellers in the U.S. His first big hit, after he was discovered by Bob Hope, then by Columbia Records' Mitch Miller, was Because of You; the record sold more than a million copies. Since then, under Miller's shrewd supervision, Tony has hit hard again with Cold, Cold Heart. He has grossed almost $200,000 ("I'm not sure; my manager takes care of that") from record sales and personal appearances; he retired his dressmaker-mother and bought a home in River Edge...