Word: ernsts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jimmy Ernst...
...Died. Ernst Buchner, 70, longtime director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections who. in anticipation of World War II, removed one of the world's finest art collections from Munich's Alte Pinakothek, safely hid the more than 1,000 masterpieces in salt mines, and after the war campaigned to rebuild the bombed-out gallery where in 1957 the collection again went on view; of a heart attack; in Munich...
...geological laboratory was getting regular messages from Admiral Byrd in Little America those days, but the focal point of interest in world affairs was Germany rather than Antarctica. Incidents involving Ernst Hanfstaengl '09, the Nazi government's foreign press secretary, brought students closer to the oppressive realities of the times. Hanfstaengl was chosen a class marshal for his 25th reunion, but he himself declined to serve after protest came from many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard, by offering a $1000 scholarship for a College student to use at a German university. The Corporation turned...
...critics charge that his technique was made in Moscow; he first served the cause of the late Ernst Thalmann, Germany's famous Red boss, in 1927. After years of underground work for the Comintern, he announced his disillusionment with Communism in 1942, decided to try for a Socialist seat in West Germany's first Bundestag in 1949. The district Wehner fought, was Hamburg-Harburg, a tough workers' area where the Communists were strong; he beat the Reds hands down, became the tough, unyielding voice of the Socialists' left wing in Parliament...
...earlier, a young French , Nadia Boulanger, received the second Prix de Rome in musical composition for a cantata called 'La .' In the intervening decades, Nadia Boulanger studied, worked, and . And in spite of her preference for anonymity, she achieved the fame based essentially on excellence as a teacher: with Ernst Bloch Paul Hindemith she shares the of most influential music teacher the century...