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Driving to the studio today, I passed a big football field. I had to look twice before I realized that the stands were jammed with people... thousands of them. I looked out on the playing field, and there wasn't a soul. And then I realized that this crowd were war prisoners. I went into the field, and there was a quiet, docile atmosphere about the place…the sort of atmosphere you get in an American football crowd between halves. Germans of every description sat quietly, chatting to their neighbors and doing nothing in particular. Bored British sentries stood around looking like ushers equipped with Tommy guns. It was that quiet.

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Born: August 17, 1914
Died: May 3, 1978 (aged 63)
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