Word: innsbruck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss de Veross enters Radcliffe as a member of the Class of '51 after studying for the past year and a half at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is majoring in biology...
Married. Don Jaime, 41, Duke of Segovia, second son and onetime heir apparent of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain (deposed 1931, died in exile 1941), who renounced his claim to the throne in 1933; and Charlotte Tiedemann, German opera singer; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born a deaf mute into a family racked by the "Bourbon curse" of hemophilia, Don Jaime learned to talk intelligibly in three languages, remains healthy...
...frail health. He was born the son of a petty Austrian official and a subject of His Apostolic Majesty, Francis Joseph (his birthplace near Trento belonged to Austria until after World War I). He had been active in the Italian nationalism movement as a student at the University of Innsbruck. But he was a rambling speaker and a rambling organizer, and he had a lifelong reputation as a compromiser...
...Bases. Molotov began to bend. He agreed with the U.S.-British view that only trifling changes should be made in the Austrian-Italian border. As a result, the Big Four turned down Vienna's demand for the controversial southern Tyrol, in spite of monster demonstrations at Innsbruck...
Died. Count Hermann Keyserling, 65, German philosopher-critic (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), founder of the Darmstadt "School of Wisdom"; in Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazis hated the bearded mystic for his anti-nationalism, in 1942 declared him "unworthy to represent the German spirit"; U.S. lecture audiences of the '20s loved him despite his tart depictions of the U.S. as a humorless, soulless, overly intellectual matriarchate...