Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Ernest Frederick ("Fritz") Hollings, 37, industry-minded Governor of South Carolina, spokesman for the "New South," and Martha Patricia Salley Hollings, 35: their sixth child, fourth son (two sons have died); in Charleston, S.C. Name: Ernest Frederick III. Weight...
...normally staid members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra laid a dress suit on the floor of their dressing room and pinned a label to it reading: "Farewell, European Tour-Thanks, Fritz." Then several players trampled across the suit. Reason for the musicians' fury: an announcement made to the orchestra a few minutes earlier by Conductor Fritz Reiner. "For your own good," Reiner told them, he had canceled the "awful tour" planned for the orchestra this summer by ANTA and the State Department. The players responded with hisses and boos...
...week European tour in the spring of 1960, Chicago papers set up a clamor: "For the first time," wrote Critic Roger Dettmer in the American, "Chicago might have gained a reputation for something else than Prohibition Era hoodlums, gang wars and civic graft. Fritz Reiner owes Chicago an explanation...
...field events, Bulldog Stan McDonald is favored in the broad jump, and teammates Bill Stack and Fritz Cooper should defeated injured Jim Doty in the 35-1b. Weight throw. Bill Marble is a close pick over the varsity's Henry Abbot in the shot, although another record-sized heave by Abbot could alter things...
...King! On you huskies!", brought to us by Quaker Oats, the cereal shot from guns. We remember the sidekicks: Vic, Tank Tinker, Jim and Penny and Clipper. We remember the villains; the Gray Ghost, Dr. Martelli, the secret agents with German accents, who called one another Klaus and Fritz and Karl. There were, of course, comic books, and we are not unfamiliar with Superman, Batman and Robin, or the Plastic Man. But mostly we listened, and imagined...