Word: leipzigers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violinist, his mother a pianist and Lyonel eventually became both. He was a shy and lonely boy who practiced four or five hours a day, then listened for hours more to his parents' performances. When he was 16, his father decided that he should continue his studies in Leipzig. But the professor his father wanted him to have was away. While waiting in Hamburg for his return, Lyonel drifted into studying...
...World War II became highly diary-conscious. It vigorously emphasized the traditional order forbidding front-line soldiers and officers to keep diaries. One of the men enforcing this order was granite-chinned Major General Robert W. Grow, who ably led the U.S. 6th Armored Division from Utah Beach to Leipzig...
Johann Sebastian Bach was 37 when he applied for the job of musical director at Leipzig's churches of St. Thomas and St. Nicolas. He was asked for some assurance that he could "maintain the music." What, for instance, could he offer for the coming Good Friday service? Bach produced his brand-new Passion According to St. John and got the job. Last week RCA Victor released the first complete recording of the St. John (6 sides LP) ever made in English...
...Saxon accent reveals a rich European background. Born in Leipzig, Germany, Neumann did his undergraduate work at the University of Leipzig and went on to Heidelberg and Grenoble in France for graduate study. Later, he joined the staff of the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik in Berlin, the only political science school in Germany...
When Communist Gerhart Eisler beat out a U.S. jail sentence in 1949 for contempt of Congress and passport fraud by stowing away on the Polish liner Batory, he was hailed by East German comrades as a "victim" of American "repression." They installed him as a professor in Leipzig University, then made him propaganda boss of the Soviet zone...