Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many old Bavarian families stubbornly resisted the Nazis and were singled out for persecution by Hitler; after the war, they were able to reclaim their confiscated holdings intact, and ever since have managed to keep the boar from the door with conspicuous success. One of their liveliest members is handsome Prince "Alfie" Auersperg, who was down to his last Schloss a few years ago; today he boasts a priceless collection of French paintings and a U.S. heiress for a wife. Because the Bavarian aristocrats have traditionally been less exclusive than Prussia's patricians, Munich today is one city...
...denounced him and spent most of the war in a Nazi internment camp; he died in 1951. Fritz Thyssen's widow, Amelie, now 85, proved resourceful: she found loopholes in the Allied decartelization decrees and gradually welded together much of the old steel dynasty. From her Bavarian castle, Frau Thyssen today controls 52% of Phoenix stock and 12% of August Thyssen stock; her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, holds another 39% of Thyssen stock. The countess thus would presumably inherit a majority share of both...
...German industry. His son Philip, then a student at Oxford, renounced his German citizenship. When war came, he joined the Foreign Legion, ultimately linked up with British intelligence and became a British subject. After the war, young Rosenthal, now 46, returned to the company's headquarters in the Bavarian village of Selb, found that one of the men who had forced out his father was still running the firm. Philip sued, in 1950 won 6% of the company's shares, a seat on the board and a job as advertising director...
...Wolfgang is not so well known as the Berlin Philharmonic's famous conductor, Herbert, but to Austrian and Bavarian chamber music fans he is every bit his younger brother's equal. For the past six years, he has blessed the countryside with his proudest achievement: the world's only traveling organ ensemble...
Died. Maria Hacker Melchior, 59, petite wife of burly Wagnerian Meistertenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles. A Bavarian silent screen star, Maria Hacker was making a parachute jump for a film when a gust of wind blew her off course and into a garden where she landed directly in front of the startled Melchior. A few months later in May of 1925, she gave up her career to become his devoted Kleinchen (Little...