Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer's prints and drawings became sought-after collectors' items and elevated graphic art into a recognized art form in its own right. Even in his preliminary drawings, such as the one he did for a now destroyed Frankfurt altarpiece (see cut). Dürer revealed the caliber of his genius: with a few deft brush strokes on green paper, he was able to depict the figure of an aged apostle fully molded, superbly draped and dramatically lighted, with a power and emotional impact that few oil painters could surpass...
...Development Corp., Ltd. Sponsored by Kuhn, Loeb, First Boston Corp., and London's S. G. Warburg, the corporation has 27 participating firms famed in the banking world. Among them: Credit Suisse, David and Laurance Rockefeller, Sal Oppenheim Jr. & Cie. (Cologne), N. M. Rothschild & Sons (London), Deutsche Bank Group (Frankfurt), Amsterdamsche Bank (Holland). The bank's purpose is to buy equity shares in foreign enterprises and furnish risk capital to businesses in countries other than the U.S. and Canada...
Curb Service. In Frankfurt, Germany, after police let it be known that a recently stolen auto belonged to Judge Johannes Kuwatsch, his car appeared in his driveway two days later freshly waxed and gleaming...
Education: At Darmstadt schools, excelling in Latin and Greek; studied law at the universities of Frankfurt, Giessen. Munich and Grenoble (France): took over the family law practice in 1932. Speaks good French and Italian, fair English...
After a concert in Frankfurt, Maestro Leopold Stokowski, guest conductor of the symphony orchestra that ploys under the aegis of the Hessian radio station in West Germany, put on no airs as he graciously received the applause of his listeners. Main reason for his refraining from his customary theatricality: white-maned Conductor Stokowski, 73, also renowned as the estranged husband of Actress-Painter-Poetess Millionheiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, had banned all pictures of the concert, was unaware that a camera had fixed its evil eye upon...