Word: benno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goer begins after a month or so to be visited by an uneasy feeling that this is where he came in. This tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long had a fixation on the Emperor Concerte...
Cruelty. In Holland, a collector of potato peels named his ass Benno - the Dutch for Benito. A Nazi paper demanded action by the S.P.C.A...
Before magazine-cover girls became Nazi Germany's art ideal, one of the most widely heiled of German sculptors was a bushy-headed, Hitler-mustached Jew named Benno Elkan. For his portrait busts, a who's who of pre-Hitler Germany, he was paid as much as $5,000 a commission. A master of monumental stonecutting, who could make his granite flow like molten lava, glow like human flesh, Elkan was picked by the Government to carve its biggest monuments to Germany's World War I dead. Art-loving Germans trooped for miles to view the massive...
...with Adolf Hitler eying the Chancellorship, Benno Elkan correctly guessed that Germany would soon be an unhealthy place for him. He packed his trunks and a few of his more portable sculptures and fled across the Swiss border. One thing he took with him was a huge (6 ft. high, 7 ft. wide), bronze candelabrum, bristling with Biblical figures. Nazi authorities proclaimed him a degenerate artist whose real Jewish name was L. Kahn, set about systematically confiscating and destroying all of his statues they could lay hammers...
Other speakers before the small audience were Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, Dean Hanford, William Cunningham, Boston sports-writer Benno Rybizka of the Eastern Slope Ski School, Douglas Mercer '40, and Langdon P. Marvin...