Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to your "Report from Munich" [TIME, March 14], I would like to carry the analogy between democracy and the car . . . a step further. My remarks are based on the reactions of a U.S. citizen, businessman and resident (who was a German citizen and resident until about...
...against. Some 13,000 of New York City's 31,500 musicians live in Brooklyn, but still Brooklyn had never been able to keep an orchestra going. Its first, started in 1857,* had been one of the U.S.'s first. It folded in 1891, when famed German-born Conductor Theodore Thomas left it to become the Chicago Symphony's first conductor...
...begin with, nearly a million had seen the collection in Washington last March and April. Then the U.S. Army sent it on tour (TIME, May 10), and another million in twelve cities had had a look-paying some $290,000 (to be used as relief for needy German children) for the privilege. In St. Louis alone, a record 227,414 jammed the City Art Museum during an 18-day exhibition, outdoing even the Manhattan attendance by some 90,000. This week in Toledo the collection is making its final appearance before being returned to Germany...
...zone, but it will not go back to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin-at least not for the present. This is not so much because of the difficulty of shipping art by the airlift as because the Army still holds the paintings "in trust for the German people." As matters now stand, Berlin is a poor place to lodge such a trust...
Finally, "Rudolf's Job," a tale about two German schoolboys, is pleasant enough. Perhaps Rudolf should have used that bucket of flour on Father Gerhart after all. As for the poems in Signature, they all seem to be well-written, particularly Anabel Handy's "The Hermitage," which contains one of the nicest similes I have ever seen. Signature must be commended for its policy of publishing this type poem and story...