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...them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine, he walked more than 400 miles from his native Lemberg to Vienna to study piano. At 14, he was made court pianist by Rumania's Prince Carol I. He became Liszt's star pupil, and practiced six hours a day to master the nuances of technique, played command performances all over Europe, exchanged ideas and mutual congratulations with Brahms and Johann Strauss in Vienna cafes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pupil of Liszt | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...Russians snowed that they knew how to run. But they also showed, to German consternation, that they could make up for appalling want of weapons by an appalling disdain for death. At Lemberg (Lwow), where they captured 100,000 Austrians, at Lodz, where they routed the Germans, they fought like demons, and paid for victory in good red blood. In ten months they lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Tartars, Tsars and Scars | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...Germanic superiority lies at the nub of Nazi doctrine, was the hypothesis of Mein Kampf. But until last week no responsible German had ever talked right out for the world to hear about Germany's heaven-given right to rule. Dr. Ley did. In a speech in conquered Lemberg, German Poland, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Our Faith! | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...insects. Vaccines made from dead typhus viruses provide immunity from the disease, but such vaccines are difficult to make, for Rickettsia prowazeki cannot be easily cultured in artificial mediums, thrives and multiplies best in its natural habitat. Chief European vaccine maker is Professor Rudolf Weigl of the University of Lemberg, Poland. Last week the Paris weekly Marianne described a visit to Professor Weigl's laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lice v. Eggs | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Yiddish Theatre, Like many other Jews who have reached artistic eminence, Muni developed his art in close contact with his own race. He was born Muni Weisenfreund in a part of Austria which is now Poland in the little town of Lemberg, which he left at the age of one month and has never seen since. His parents were traveling actors who journeyed from one European capital to another, performing in the ghettos. The nomadic life of the Weisenfreunds took them to London, where Muni went to his first school, and later, when Muni was six, to the goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prestige Picture | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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