Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Famed community for homeless boys, established in Nebraska by Irish-born Father Edward J. Flanagan, who died last spring in Germany, where he was consulting with military government officials on the rehabilitation of German youth...
...pilot bed, an improvement on early German design, is made of strong nylon mesh hung between side boards curved to fit the pilot's body. The mesh can be loosened to make room for broad hips, and a rounded belly (which are among the occupational hazards of airmen). The pilot's jaw rests on a padded adjustable shelf. A counter-weighted forehead strap takes the strain off his neck. He steers the plane by resting his forearms in movable "pans" with hand grips for stick, throttle, etc., at their forward ends. His feet work the rudder, brakes...
Beer & Beef. Thirteen years ago, burly Frankie Laine was singing for beer and beef at the Stamford (Conn.) German Club; for half a dozen years before, he had been an unnoticed mediocrity on the soggy-ballad circuit around Chicago nightclubs. He had given up singing for selling cars, songwriting (It Only Happens Once) and, during the war, defense work. But, says Frankie, the son of a Chicago barber, "I couldn't stay away from it long . . . I hadda get up in front and sing." In 1946, he made only $2,000 at it. Then things began to happen...
...music sheets about the musical methods and tastes of their conductor, Karl Krueger, the 55-year-old Kansan who had led the Seattle and Kansas City orchestras out of a musical desert. Reichhold had an answer to that: "Perhaps the American public hasn't learned to appreciate the German school of conducting of which Krueger is a disciple. I like this way of playing music, and it's the kind of music Detroit is going to get." Furthermore, he said: "I think a good shake-up and house cleaning is just what the Detroit Symphony needs. Troublemakers...
...Denver one day last week, a motorist pulled up to the curb in front of the Colorado State Bank. He rolled down his window, and began talking to what looked like a grey steel mailbox at the curb. It was no mailbox, but a "snorkel" (so called after the German submarine air intake) for curbstone banking...