Word: frankfurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born: June 20, 1904, at Offenbach am Main, near Frankfurt...
Born in 1889 in Offenbach, near Frankfurt on Main, Schneider studied literature, history, philosophy and Protestant theology in the universities of Tuebingen, Leipzig, and Giessen...
...Piano Pieces (Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale; Columbia). A gifted romantic at his most melodious. Weber puts as much sweet pathos and lilting grace into these little charmers as he does into his more famed operas (Der Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe). Other notable new releases: Brahms's German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Museum Orchestra conducted by Georg Sold; Capitol, 2 LPs); Giuseppe Torelli's Twelve Concert!, Op. 8 (Stuttgart Pro Musica String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia...
German travelers hurrying through Frankfurt's bustling Rhein-Main airport stopped in surprise last week as the loudspeaker boomed: "Lufthansa flight from Hamburg to Munich has just arrived." Then most of them rushed to the big waiting-room window and looked out onto the field. There a light-blue Lufthansa Convair, with the familiar eagle painted on its nose, taxied in, completing the first scheduled test run for the line. Germany had her wings back...
...both sides provoked passions that boded no good for German democracy. Bruisers stood on guard at Socialist meetings; admission to Adenauer's meetings was by ticket only, to keep out hecklers. In some towns rivals clashed, and the police used batons and hoses. There were near riots in Frankfurt; in West Berlin cops arrested 239 out of a gang of 500 when they tried to break up a Christian Democratic meeting presided over by the Vice Chancellor of West Germany, Franz Blucher...