Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening night approached, theater directors became more and more uneasy. How would German audiences react to the Pulitzer Prizewinning Broadway hit, The Diary of Anne Frank? What would they feel about the nerve-rasping true story of the teen-age Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis for two wartime years in a cramped attic in German-occupied Amsterdam, was finally captured and killed in a concentration camp? When Germans at war's end saw actual movies of concentration camp horrors, they greeted the films with skepticism and derision. Would they jeer Anne Frank off the stage? One night...
...breeds rumors, and a widespread rumor in the missile business is that the Army hopes to toss a satellite into the sky ahead of Project Vanguard, which is administered by the Navy. Leader of this dark plot, according to rumor, is famed Wernher von Braun, chief creator of the German V2, now chief of guided missile development at the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Von Braun is said to believe that the satellitelaunching vehicle should have a more powerful first-stage rocket. The Army has such rockets, notably the mighty Redstone (range: 200 miles plus), and unless stopped...
...into a commercial air transport. From Moscow last winter he was the first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas DC-7s instead of British aircraft. Early in World War II it was Parrish who learned that a shortage of B-17 bomber...
...nature morte, by the Spaniards bodegones, which means "low-class restaurant or taproom"), the Milwaukee Art Institute and the Cincinnati Art Museum have teamed up to assemble an ambitious selection ot paintings covering 500 years of still life. Opening this week in Cincinnati, the exhibition ranges from an unknown German's Cabinet with Bottles and Books, dated 1470, down to such later-day works as Georges Braque's Soda and Stuart Davis' Eggbeater V; it includes works by the 17th century Dutch masters, France's Chardin and Spanish Painter Zurbaran. Far from being a drab assortment...
...bustling construction site in the West German city of Düsseldorf last week, the final steel girders were being lowered into place for an important new building: Germany's biggest and most modern stock exchange. When it is formally opened next summer, the city's brokers and traders will have a 13-story, $1,500,000 granite-and-glass headquarters with a trading floor almost half the size of a football field, a modern ticker-tape system, offices and exhibition rooms and a 100-car parking garage. Düsseldorf's new Stock Exchange will symbolize...