Word: leipzigers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Away with Animals. Born the son of a well-to-do Leipzig physician, Hartung began drawing in infancy, as most children do. But, recalls Hartung, "while the other kids were drawing manikins and animals, I tried to draw thunderstorms." Later on he filled the margins of his schoolbooks with doodles that seemed best to express his feelings. Outwardly, Hartung followed the trend of his generation, haunted the museums in his teens admiring Rembrandt, Matthias Grüunewald and El Greco, began painting in the style of Viennese Expressionist Kokoschka...
Mission to Washington. Although young Rossby was fascinated by the new meteorology, he did not stay put in Bergen. Like many European students, he wandered from university to university, stopping for a year at Leipzig, then returning to Stockholm. After winning his licentiate (graduate degree) in theoretical physics, he worked for a while for the Swedish weather bureau, where he decided "the prospects looked pretty bleak." Rescue came in 1926 from the Sweden-American Foundation, which gave him a fellowship to go to the U.S. His mission: to sell the Bjerknes doctrine to U.S. meteorology...
...East-West German trade flows at the rate of $276 million a year. No fewer than 1,589 top West German industrial firms, led by Krupp, offered their wares at the Soviet zone's spring Leipzig Fair...
...seaman, Kim Malthe-Bruun, who, the day after he had been tortured, wrote, "Suddenly I realized how incredibly strong I am. When the soul returned once more to the body, it was as if the jubilation of the whole world had been gathered together here." A onetime mayor of Leipzig, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, implicated in the July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler's life, wrote in his death cell: "Christ...
...films were obtained from the West German government by Otte Bachmann, James B. Contant exchange scholar. One shows the 1953 East Berlin riots, and the other a Leipzig youth rally...