Word: georg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Georg Fleischmann, accused of directing the mass executions of Jews at Smolensk, was arrested in 1965 but never tried. Last July the public prosecutor's office announced that a case against several of Fleischmann's accomplices was finally ready for trial; Fleischmann himself died of natural causes...
Some 40 other firms have jumped into a market that now amounts to several hundred million dollars annually. Kenton Corp. began its Georg Jensen porcelain series by offering plates painted with an Andrew Wyeth winter scene. A limited edition of 12,500 plates cost $50 each; a "super-limited" edition of 275 numbered and signed pieces went for $350 each. Says Ralph Destino, president of Kenton's wholesale division: "I can sell a nice dinner plate for $5, but if I take off the rose pattern and put on a Wyeth painting, I can sell...
Charles Bietry, a reporter for Agence France Presse, was the first to send out the correct, tragic news after talking with Georg Kronawitter, the mayor of Munich. A.F.P. moved that report at 9:13 p.m. New York time, allowing the New York Times to be accurate in its first edition (part of the first run of the Washington Post reported the hostages rescued; the Post had earlier arranged to get A.F.P. service, but the teleprinter did not arrive until the next morning). U.S. television networks do not subscribe to A.F.P. During the official press conference, which began at about...
Occasionally Goodman will admit the existence of a little ingenuity on the part of others. Bernstein? "He revived the Philharmonic. He created a new interest in music by his enthusiasm and energy and unique approach." Georg Solti? "Fantastic dynamics. I seldom go to concerts, but you could not pay me to stay away when Solti comes to New York with the Chicago Symphony." More often, Goodman is a flinty patriarch who seems to live by his own view that the conductor is seen, but the timpanist is heard. Mengelberg? "Very quirky and picky. He would rearrange the orchestra when...
Died. Dr. Georg von Bekesy, 73, Hungarian-born physicist and winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in medicine for his research on the human ear; of cancer; in Honolulu. Von Bekesy was a scientist employed by a Budapest telephone laboratory when he began his research into the physiological aspects of hearing during the '20s. Over the next four decades his equipment and techniques-he once glued tiny mirrors onto an eardrum to observe its response to varied sounds-helped in the diagnosis of hearing disorders...