Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, bore her princely lover two children, took up briefly with Novelist Balzac ("I have since noted," said he dryly, "that most women who sit a horse well are lacking in tenderness"). From Paris, Jane rode on to Bavaria, became the mistress of King Ludwig I, married a Bavarian baron and bore two more children. Swept off her feet by a Greek count, Jane was baptized into the Orthodox faith, married again, arrived in Athens where she had another baby, broke with her husband and became the mistress of Greece's King Otho (son of her former lover, King...
...people lost their lives. It might have been much worse but for the prompt help of the U.S. Army's 4,000-man disaster team, which rescued 300 by helicopter, evacuated thousands of others in amphibian trucks and 150 assault boats. In Germany, G.I.s worked alongside 5,000 Bavarian policemen and 3,000 frontier guards for a week, fighting the floods. In Bonn, Konrad Adenauer and his Cabinet voted to thank the helpful Americans. Wired Adenauer: "The German population is filled with deep gratitude." At the U.S. Air Force base at Tulln, near Vienna, 40 airmen rode boldly into...
...mile course between Wales and Northern Ireland. Such "catastrophe flights" are normally blamed on bad weather, but the German ornithologists say that they are commoner now than they used to be. A pigeon race near Karlsruhe lost 3,500 out of 6,000 entries. Of 2,500 Bavarian pigeons, only six crossed the finish line...
...staff in 1944, sought in vain to remove Hitler's ban on retreat in the East, was later ousted and, as the war ended, was captured by U.S. forces. Never tried as a war criminal, Old Soldier Guderian pubished his memoirs, Panzer Leader (1952), lived quietly in the Bavarian Alps until death came...
...Father Johannes Schwertfirm, Roman Catholic pastor in the Bavarian town of Ober-Teisendorf was in trouble with the law. Again and again, he had vainly asked the authorities for permission to enlarge his church, built in 1429 and far too small for his present congregation. Turned down because of the church's historical value, Father Schwertfirm, 63, carefully removed the church's holy objects, then set off the explosives he had planted and blew up the building. His sentence: two months in jail...