Word: egon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Concertgebouw's Manager Egon Kater: "When Klemperer appears before an orchestra it is like holy devotion, as if the Pope appeared at Saint Peter's Cathedral in front of a crowd of believers. Klemperer is one of the very few great living conductors; he can be compared only to Toscanini, Bruno Walter and-let us say it without political prejudice-Furtwängler...
...about Prague on the eve of World War I. When Reither came home from parting with Minnow, he found his household just the way it always was. His sister, the Honorable Caroline von Wrbata-Treuenfels, was coldly examining a roast goose's wingbone through her lorgnette. Son Max Egon was at work on his great essay: Life, a Disease of Our Planet. Son-in-law Dr. Rankl, who looked like "a set of false teeth," was sipping coffee with whipped cream and reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with...
...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...
Against towering Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playmg intimate of Adolf Hitler Bostonian Francis Wilson filed suit for $1,800, charged that he had advanced that sum for the education of Putzi's son at Harvard, never got it back. Son Egon Hanfstaengl left Harvard last year to join the U.S. Army Air Forces. His father was last heard from in a Canadian concentration camp...
...Egon Ludwig Hanfstaengl ("Putzi's" son but a patriotic U. S. citizen) got down to 200 Ib. before he was taken into the Air Corps. He is now a buck private in training at Maxwell Field in Alabama. Weight range for Air Corps recruits: 115 to 200 Ib. Height range: 5 ft. to 6 ft. 4 in. Requirements for pilots are narrower but not rigidly denned-i.e., they must be well-balanced physical specimens...