Word: benno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...that the first was a girl, busied themselves at once last week with prayers that next February they will have a male heir. The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three weeks' bachelor vacation, leaving her at The Hague, told friends last week: "Benno and I will soon go for a cruise in the Baltic on the yacht we were given as a wedding present...
...Europe's merriest royal couple- Crown Princess Juliana, almost nine months pregnant, and Prince Bernhard, now in his sixth week of recovery from a, motor smashup-spent the holidays in adjoining rooms of an Amsterdam hospital, their friends received their royal Christmas card. It bore a photograph of Benno's wrecked Ford, beneath it a verse in their own English...