Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Montgomery finally bowled him over, in the assault beginning at El Alamein, it was by sheer weight and numbers. Of Montgomery, Rommel wrote: "He risked nothing which was the least dpubtful, and any bold action was completely foreign to him." To which Rommel's chief of staff, Fritz Bayerlein, added: "I do not think General Patton would have let us get away so easily...
...business. Bing found he "loved selling," could sometimes let his enterprising imagination run wild. Once he billed a faltering troupe of dancers as "Dancers of Vice, Horror and Ecstasy," had to give extra performances to accommodate the crowds. Among the agency's clients were Soprano Lotte Lehmann, Conductor Fritz Busch, a young violinist named Eugene Ormandy, and a troupe of Russian dancers which included Nina Schelemskaya-Schelesnaya, who later shortened her name to Mrs. Rudolf Bing...
...Aerojet turned out some $10 million worth of Jato units, became one of the biggest U.S. rocket manufacturers. As Aerojet began to rise, Von Kármán stepped down from the presidency, became the company's chief research consultant. CalTech's imaginative physicist Dr. Fritz Zwicky became active, research chief...
...with the case. Perscheid's dossier was dynamite. It proved that the Red's judicial masquerade was staged to smash the Liberal Democratic Party, to which the defendants belonged, because it had refused to collaborate with the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party. Perscheid had received special tutelage from Fritz Lange, chairman of East Germany's State Control Commission. Perscheid quoted Lange as telling him: "The prosecution and court are our mouthpieces. What we blow into them from the back must come out in front like notes from a flute." Shortly before Perscheid fled, Lange dictated...
...substitute fast. Roberta had memorized the role and, at 5 ft. 2 in., was a neat fit in Conner's costume. After an afternoon of cramming sessions with Stage Director Herbert Graf, Assistant Manager Max Rudolf and some final tips just an hour before curtain time from Conductor Fritz Reiner, Roberta was waved onstage. She turned out to be just about the only bright light in an otherwise lusterless performance...