Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, a truck loaded with blue-shirted toughs from the Freie Deutsche Jugend (the Communist youth organization) rolled through a tiny hamlet near Dresden in Germany's Russian zone. As it ground to a stop, the blue shirts piled out shouting: "Farmer Fritz Merkel is a doppelzüngiger Reaktionär (two-timing reactionary)." Two trucks that followed disgorged half-frightened, vodka-drunk workers. On Communist orders, they rushed out to Fritz merkel's farm, smashed and scattered farm tools, opened chicken coops and rabbit hutches. some of them broke down the heavy door...
...Walter, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Georges Enesco, Nathan Milstein and Jennie Tourel all rose to add their tributes to the refrain. Finally a towered cake with 75 candles was carried in. While more than 400 guests stood and applauded and a string ensemble played his own Liebesfreud, white-haired old Violinist Fritz Kreisler got to his feet to blow out the candles...
...just listened to the obituary of my artistic career." Perhaps the eulogies, by his longtime friends, Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn and Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, had been premature; but then, his had been the kind of life that had moved the New York Times last week to call Fritz Kreisler what in fact he was: "A great human being, one of our most magnificent contemporaries...
...Tablecloth. At 75, Fritz Kreisler thought he had reached the age of "physical debilities and moral responsibilities." His health has been frail ever since he was struck down by a truck in Manhattan in 1941, and his hearing has grown poor. He was fiddling only occasionally; he did not want to "stand in the way of the younger generation," even though he thought that there were "too many crazy mothers who drive their children into careers when they're not fitted for it." He had some advice for kids who are fitted for it: no teacher after...
With Harriet, whom he married in 1902, Kreisler now lives quietly in an apartment overlooking Manhattan's East River. Many of the rewards of his long career-money, books and manuscripts-have gone to charities and public institutions. He was content with other kinds of rewards. Said Fritz Kreisler to his birthday well-wishers last week, while wife Harriet tugged at the tablecloth to remind him not to talk too long: "Accept the profound gratitude of one who will always remain your humble and faithful friend...