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Married. Lieut. General (ret.) Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen. 81, World War II occupation governor of Belgium, who was imprisoned in 1944 by the Gestapo for his alleged part in an anti-Hitler conspiracy and from 1945 to 1951 by the Allies; and Cecile Vent, 54, wealthy Belgian also jailed by the Gestapo for underground work; both for the second time; in Nassau, Germany...
Died. Arthur W. Hermann, 72, a foreman from 1918 to 1922 of the U.S. Radium Corp., against which he filed a $1,000,000 damage suit three months ago, charging that he had suffered radium poisoning while at work; of cancer; in East Orange, N.J. Forty-three women employees of the company during the same era subse quently died of radium poisoning, probably from swallowing the radioactive substance while moistening the brushes they used in painting numerals on watch dials...
What redeemed Bayreuth's Ring was the first-rate musical performance by Conductor Rudolf Kempe and his singers, among them Birgit Nilsson, Aase Nordmo Loevberg, Hermann Uhde, Jerome Hines. While the stars bore familiar names, the surprises of the festival were provided by the talented newcomers. Among them: Berlin-born Anja Silja, 20, singing Senta in The Flying Dutchman, who first came to Bayreuth four years ago as a visiting teenager; Texas-born Thomas Stewart, 32, who was selected for the impressive role of Amfortas in Parsifal after illness forced George London to cancel; U.S. Conductor Lorin Maazel...
...mammoth VOeEST steel works (formerly the Hermann Goring plant), Khrushchev exploded when told it had been rebuilt with Marshall Plan dollars. "Who will help you?" he cried. "The United States? No! Britain? No! West Germany? No! The capitalistic countries think of Austria as a competitor. We of the Soviet Union cooperate...