Word: brandenburgs
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...four hours along 35 miles of milling humanity. Women broke through the barricades, children grabbed for the President's coat, people threw torrents of flowers. But Kennedy was grim as he approached the Wall. The East Germans had deliberately stretched three huge flags across the Brandenburg Gate so that the view was obscured...
...freshman meet was won by David Allen of Grays, although he was pressed by George Brandenburg of Strauss and Dieter Wahl of Greenough, who finished second and third, respectively...
...daily 2. 2 -mile circus. To the Russians went a curt announcement: as of midnight next day, there would be no more junketing through the U.S. sector to the war memorial. Instead, the Communists could either break a path through their own Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, or use the Invalidenstrasse crossing point directly into the British sector, where the monument is located...
...respected German historian who says this tale of Luther's dramatic Thesenanschlag (thesis posting) is pure legend. Dr. Erwin Iserloh, Roman Catholic professor of church history at Trier, declares that Luther merely mailed off copies of his theses to two of his ecclesiastical superiors, the Bishop of Brandenburg and the Archbishop of Magdeburg and Mainz, and let it go at that. Iserloh points out that the writings of Luther himself never mentioned nailing the theses on a door; the first record of the story, in fact, was written after the heretic's death in 1546 by his disciple...
High Pressure. Wherever Bach buffs gather, Scherbaum can be found-at the Ansbach Festival, for instance, and in recording studios all over Europe (his recordings have three times won France's Grand Prix du Bisque). When Otto Klemperer embarked on a project to record all six Brandenburg concertos with London's Philharmonia Orchestra, he routed Scherbaum out of bed with a long distance call and implored him to take a morning plane to England. When Scherbaum played the Second Brandenburg in Moscow, the solo trumpeter of the State Symphony Orchestra rushed backstage to embrace...