Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behrman's 1940 play, Jacobowsky and the Colonel, written in conjunction with the Austrian Franz Werfel, was recently made into the successful motion picture, Me and the Colonel, starring Danny Kaye and Curt Jurgens...
...since the heyday of Andrea Mead Lawrence have U.S. woman skiers offered notable competition for the talented European girls. But last week in the Austrian town of Kitzbühel, ski buffs were talking enthusiastically about a pair of pretty 20-year-olds from New England who have set the skiing fraternity on its ear. At Grindelwald, Switzerland, the week before, Penny Pitou had won the downhill and combined championships, and Betsy Snite had taken the giant slalom, finished second to Penny in the downhill. Bubbled Betsy: "We came to Kitzbühel to find ourselves famous...
...girls kept at it doggedly, returned to Europe in 1957 to learn more. Slowly, they began to win events in minor meets. Penny got a job as an interpreter with an Austrian ski manufacturer; Betsy became a fashion model for a German sportswear shop. Penny, a husky, 140-lb. blonde, excels in the downhill; Betsy, whose brown hair is streaked with silver strands to accord with the current vogue for fashion models, is smaller and more nimble, does best in the slalom. They have modeled themselves on the style of Austrian men ("Only the boys have the drive and aggressiveness...
...manufacturers in business, it remains a myth. This basic truth was thoroughly documented in last week's retrospective show of designed products at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Among the many chairs, for example, in the Modern Museum's show, perhaps the handsomest was an Austrian rocker, designer anonymous, manufactured back in 1860. And yet that ancient rocker, tendriled like a vine from the wine-heavy hills around Vienna, had a brisk, bald-bottomed rival in Charles Eames's up-to-the-minute en try in molded Fiberglas and wire. An art nouveau desk (circa...
Died. Artur Rodzinski, 64, master builder of symphony orchestras; of a heart ailment; in Boston. Born on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian coast, Rodzinski was the son of a Polish surgeon in the Austrian army. Holder of a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna, he preferred music, came to the U.S. in 1925 on the invitation of Leopold Stokowski. His talent for developing orchestras, which even exceeded his art as a conductor, brought prestigious results in Los Angeles, Cleveland and New York, where Rodzinski took over the listless Philharmonic in 1943. Considering himself hamstrung by management, he stormily quit...