Word: josef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany's Minister of Defense, beefy, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been a vigorous foe of Prussianism. Whenever the officers of West Germany's new, "democratic" army showed any signs of reverting to the autocratic traditions of the Junkers, Bavarian-born Minister Strauss cracked down hard-and thereby won the applause of most of his countrymen. But last week Franz Josef Strauss was learning firsthand the full depth of West Germans' postwar distaste for jack-in-office arrogance...
...occasion. Under banner headlines last week, the Neues Deutschland carried an article urging the faculty on to greater and greater efforts in behalf of the "socialist reform" of the university. Among the signatures at the bottom was that of the university's rector, 63-year-old Josef Hämel. But on the very same page the paper carried a news item of quite a different sort. Hämel, said the story in almost unbelieving tones, "misusing the confidence put in him by the government," had fled to join "the atomic-war strategists...
Divorced from Hungarian Writer Josef Bard after four years of marriage, Dorothy returned to the U.S. in 1928 to embark on a new career: wife to Novelist Sinclair Lewis. As energetic a spouse as she was reporter, she gave up heavy reading for menu planning, bore Lewis a son, hosted his parties. But as Dorothy and "Red" drifted apart (they separated in 1937), she took on more and more work...
Died. Max Graf, 84, music critic who reached fame in Emperor Franz Josef's fin-de-siècle Vienna, author of Modern Music, Composer and Critic, Legend of a Musical City; of a stroke; in Vienna. Friend and appraiser of Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss aging Max Graf recoiled as the Nazis took the Vienna woods, later wrote that "it required three centuries to make Vienna a musical city; one day sufficed to destroy this historic edifice." Fleeing to the U.S., he taught at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, became...
...money is yet to be seen. As Britain and France have cut their NATO manpower, and West Germany has at last begun to contribute its own troops to the alliance, Bonn has stiffened its attitude -on support costs, which many Germans choose to call "occupation costs." Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, an open foe of support payments, has even implied that if his government does agree to any payments, he will cancel large chunks of his ministry's several hundred million-dollar U.S.-arms contracts. Though his domestic arms buildup is going so slowly that he seems unlikely...