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Book review: 'Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage'
Los Angeles TimesContemporary history is seldom as relevant and engaging as Douglas Waller's new biography, "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage," which is — by turns — fascinatingly instructive and thoroughly...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, World War I (1914-1918), United Kingdom, Diseases and Illnesses, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Fact-checking Michele Bachmann: What good is it?
Opinion L.A.I know I'm late weighing in on this, but watching Michele Bachmann's officially unsanctioned State of the Union response Tuesday night, I was reminded of a quip by Dodgers announcer Vin Scully: "Statistics are used much like a drunk uses...... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, May 18, 1941
The Daily MirrorMay 18, 1941: Nazi sky fleet? Lee Shippey returns for a Sunday column. Tom Treanor says: Americans are here developing Venezuela's oil resources for just one reason. They have the capital and the know-how for oil production which the Venezuelans...... -
How not to apologize (I'm talking to you, Lars von Trier)
Opinion L.A.Count on provocative Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier to kick up a controversy even when his movies don't. Steven Zeitchik reports on The Times' 24 Frames blog that Von Trier made a disastrous attempt at humor involving Nazis and Jews...... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, May 23, 1941
The Daily MirrorMay 23, 1941: Why is Luise Rainer, a brilliant artist, permitted to twiddle her thumbs at the Beverly Hills Hotel? (She came here to get her final divorce decree.) Why are incompetents given fine dramatic roles to ruin, when an...... -
Trying to get to the heart of Jack Kevorkian
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAt the crux of the lingering debate over Dr. Jack Kevorkian is an unresolved question of character: What kind of guy would devote his life to helping other people die? Was he a compassionate visionary, fighting to end the suffering of the ill, or was...Tags: Barry Levinson, Fiction, Apartments, Prisons, Human Interest
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SNCF: Upfront and apologetic about our Holocaust role
Opinion L.A.In its Nov. 20 editorial "Echoes of the Holocaust," The Times raised questions concerning the sincerity of the French national railway's apology for its World War II role in the Holocaust. The railway, known as SNCF, hopes to win a...... -
Roger Ailes of Fox News: 'Nazis' are running public radio [Updated]
The Big PictureAnyone who has watched Fox News personality Glenn Beck with any regularity has heard warnings of an end of life in America as we know it, specifically a Nazi-style takeover of the government. That could be the eventual endgame, according...... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Feb. 1, 1941
The Daily MirrorFeb. 1. 1941: Tom Treanor writes about the collision of his impressions of English resolve against the Nazis with that of reporters who had been based in London. Treanor says Edward Beattie of United Press put it this way: "Hitler...... -
Lars von Trier: Nazi sympathizer or just a filmmaker with bad comic timing?
The Big PictureLars Von Trier's Nazi remarks -- were they really just a bad joke?... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Feb. 3, 1941
The Daily MirrorFeb. 3, 1941: Tom Treanor has the story of how one woman escaped from Nazi-occupied France. Also notice the story about defense industries lifting their ban on hiring older workers. The story notes "a California aircraft company 'put on several...... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Feb. 11, 1941
The Daily MirrorFeb. 11, 1941: Tom Treanor, recently returned from Europe, says: There is no place so confusing and so dismal as a grimy old European railroad station, where you're getting your legs knocked by bags and you can't find any place......
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