Word: emill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catastrophe. Klaus Fuchs (rhymes with books) was born 38 years ago in Russelsheim, Germany. His father, Emil Fuchs, was first a Protestant minister, became a Quaker in 1925. He was a lifelong member of the Socialist Party and a pacifist. During the 1930s the Nazis persecuted the whole family because of the father's Socialism and pacifism. Emil Fuchs spent nine months in a concentration camp. One of Klaus's sisters, a painter, became an active anti-Nazi political worker, helped her husband to escape from Germany, jumped to her death beneath a Berlin subway train after persecution...
Others thought it was good, too. The dance had spread to the U.S. In Manhattan, Tony & Sally de Marco introduced a fancy-dress version at the Plaza Hotel and on the stage of Broadway's Capitol Theater. Bandman Emil Coleman was playing it nightly along with foxtrots, rumbas and sambas for the Waldorf-Astoria patrons...
...Died. Emil Jannings, 62, hulking Swiss-born German cinemactor who won Hollywood's first "Oscar" (The Way of All Flesh, 1928); of cancer; at his lakeside home in Austria. Forsaking the U.S. when talkies exposed his accent in 1929, Jannings made Nazi propaganda (Ohm Kriiger), but was denazified...