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...Croesus-rich ex-Austrian arms manufacturer who has had his political troubles (he was blacklisted in 1944 by the State Department and is now rumored imprisoned in Argentina) ran into domestic trouble. He was sued for $80,000 in back alimony by his first wife, ex-Viennese Actress Hella Strauss. (Another Mandl exwife: Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr-see MILESTONES...
...Graucho Sloucho" Strauss disappointed all when he failed to attend Narragansett's Saturday meet. "The Grouch" figures that he would have won around a century had someone not steered him away from the track...
...latest quotations of Math Enterprises, Inc., it was rising about fast as the square Strauss Poultry dropping. Could there be a mathematics correlation...
A.M.G. officials, overruling the sign-nailing G.I.s to whom Richard Strauss was just "another kraut," took down the sign. The composer stayed at home unmolested, continued to work on his new one-act opera called Capriccio...
Always a good German, Strauss has been an on-again-off-again friend of the Nazis. Last June, he publicly snapped his fingers at Hitler's threat to cancel his birthday celebration, said: "It was not I who started the war" (TIME, July 17). Even then, the Kultur-conscious Nazis, considering his prestige valuable to Germany, let him be. As the war approached his doorstep, the aged composer continued to cultivate his musical garden...