Word: alt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of sending their loot to the Alt Aussee mine, their great art repository...
...were to cope with the U.S.S.R. He showed he had both when, the morning after the party, he wiped the slate clean of a lesser problem. Standing in the smoke-filled Oslo officers' club beneath a foot-high wall inscription of the Norwegian kings' motto, "Alt for Norge" (All for Norway), Lange voiced his final no to the Swedish-Danish suggestion of a Scandinavian neutrality bloc...
...from a Jewish-owned art house-Goudstikker of Amsterdam:-for a museum in memory of his mother. (He assumed that all the North European paintings he liked must necessarily be "German" in inspiration.) U.S. soldiers rediscovered the Dutch loot among 4,000 paintings hidden in a salt mine at Alt Aussee...
...love story of the Austro-Hungarian royal heir (Harry Stockwell) and his unroyal Marinka (Joan Roberts) furnishes a good deal more low comedy than high romance. It is told without style or period elegance, in a lurching effort to reconcile antics with atmosphere. As a result, the Alt Wien of 1888 and the Broadway of 1945 constantly collide, and neither wins out. The whole thing merely smacks of something in between the two-operetta the world over, circa...
Other discoveries of the week: ¶ A whopping collection of uncatalogued art objects-in a sealed mine near Alt-Aussee, high in the Austrian Alps. This "lode" is reported to include works from Monte Cassino, Rothschild collections from Paris and Vienna, the famed Ghent altarpiece by the Brothers Van Eyck, and a part of Goring's treasures. (Deep in the mine are Hitler's own library and personal correspondence...