Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade their few belongings for food...
Party-Liners. In a three-room flat in Höchst, outside Frankfurt, sits Peter Fischer, a tubby, earnest little man who spent a lifetime in the parties of the working class-first the Social Democrats, then the Communists. He helped form the Frankfurt city government when the Nazis fled...
Lovers. In the snack bar of Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport, a German girl sits with her G.I. fiancé. He is a slight, blond boy of perhaps 18; she is a blonde, bulging, overbearing, with a broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat glare of an electric light that turns on & off at the touch of a switch. She leans with both elbows on the table and in a loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young...
Berkshire Festival (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts the Boston Symphony in an all-Mozart program : Serenade in B-Flat Major and Jupiter Symphony...
From that day on, Walter Greaves and his brother Harry followed Whistler wherever he went. Strutting, dandyish Whistler was glad to have them follow. The brothers affected bis flat, wide-brimmed black hat and yellow tie. They even signed his invitations with meticulous copies of the famous Whistler signature: a butterfly with a sting in its tail. Sitting on either side of their hero at a life class, they seldom looked at the model; their eyes were fixed on the Master's drawing. Sometimes Whistler would roll a cigaret and smoke it; the Greaves brothers solemnly copied him, puff...