Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest writers (Way of Sacrifice), a Junker officer who turned pacifist. Exiled by the Nazis, he had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. His grandfather had been the parliament's presiding officer. Von Unruh reminded his listeners that again & again since 1848 Germans have trampled freedom to death in their own country. When his audience squirmed, he peered from face to face. "What did you expect to hear from me? . . . Who among us could forgive himself...
Last week, Jacques Rachmilovich was on the podium in front of Toscanini's own NBC Symphony, to guest-conduct the first of two concerts. His programming followed Rachmilovich's principle of playing music that other U.S. orchestras have not yet done to death. Instead of Beethoven and Brahms, NBC fans heard Darius Milhaud's Suite Provençale and Dmitri Kabalevsky's fiery Fete Populaire...
...Although the death throes lasted for years. The official death certificate had already been issued by the New York State Athletic Commission when it ruled that wrestling was an exhibition rather than a contest...
...Point-born manufacturer of the French Hotchkiss machine gun, uncle to Poets William Rose Benet and the late Stephen Vincent Benet; in Washington. Benet sold the Hotchkiss, which he perfected to fire 550 shots a minute, to all comers, but was touchy about his reputation as a "merchant of death," once reassured a visitor that "my fingers are not dripping blood this morning...
Showdown. Able, amiable Bill Norton was born and raised in Hampton, N.H., and prepped at Exeter. He left Harvard during his freshman year to support himself and three younger brothers after the death of their parents. Starting in Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., he worked his way up in various stores (e.g., W. T. Grant Co. and Filene's in Boston), until he joined Ward...