Word: kluge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artists as Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Christoff, Siminonato, Valletti, Gobbi, Schwarzkopf and Rysanek for their U.S. debuts, can boast a list of U.S. premieres that puts the Met to shame. Last week San Francisco gave the first U.S. stage performances of two short works by German Composer Carl Orff-Die Kluge and Carmina Burana. Other noted San Francisco firsts: Walton's Troilus and Cressida, Poulenc's Carmelites, Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake. Retorted Bing: "My congratulations and greatest respect to Mr. Adler for his daring to introduce these operas to empty houses...
Happy Sounds. One of seven radio stations in a chain headed by wealthy Food Broker John Kluge, WILY quadrupled its advertising billings in the last three years, now carries 150 commercials a day. Yet both Tannen and Kluge felt its identification as a Negro station had sealed off even more potential customers...
...Oberkommando chief in Berlin, got von Rundstedt on the telephone and wailed, "What shall we do?" Von Rundstedt snapped, "Make peace, you fools!" Keitel ran to Hitler with the remark, and the Führer wrote von Rundstedt a "nice letter," saying that Field Marshal Günther von Kluge would take his place. Discharged, von Rundstedt nonetheless presided at the "Court of Honor," which ruthlessly drummed out of the German army those officers implicated or suspected in the unsuccessful July 20 attempt on Adolf Hitler's life...
...Kluge: I did not say that...
...Kluge: No, my Führer, I didn't mean that. I have so little left, just a little bit. What I wanted to indicate was that the situation is hardly tenable any more...