Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KURT WEITZMANN...
Vicarious congratulations are equally in order for persevering Princetonian Professor Kurt Weitzmann, for bringing into focus this lost horizon of Byzantine...
First prize in the fiction category was split between Kurt V. Blankmeyer '59 and M. Richard Robinson '58-4, who received awards of $85 each. A special award of $40 in this category went to John R. Drucker...
...Window. For Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann, 55, the expedition fulfilled a long-frustrated dream. He first tried to get to the monastery in 1932, but was turned back by an attack of typhus. A second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint...
...born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned on his wedding day, took the news fairly calmly, but tiny (5 ft.) Soprano Stratas, a senior at the University of Toronto, promptly burst into tears. She kissed Conductor Kurt Adler and everyone else in sight, announced: "I can't wait. I want so much, I want to do things." Met staffers, struck by her facial and temperamental resemblance to another emotional soprano with a Greek name, have already pinned a nickname on Winner Stratas: "Little Callas...