Word: michele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Military Government court in Belgium last week two German civilians stood face to face with death. Robert Michel Hogen, 47, and Karl Packbier, 37, had harbored three German soldiers and an officer on Herr Hogen's farm, near the German town of Horbach. They had fed them and given them civilian clothes. Theirs was a capital offense...
...swept past Mont-Saint-Michel last week, but some enraptured U.S. troops stopped to stare. A half century ago another U.S. visitor, Henry Adams, saw the same towering, church-crowned rock in the sea off Avranches, felt the same compulsion. Wrote he in Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres...
...able to pick out vestiges of the 1,000-year-old Romanesque towers and Gothic spires that once thrust up over the city. If so, they were probably the last men who would ever see them. For the architectural treasures of the city, which Henry Adams (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres) once called a "Romanesque Mecca," seemed doomed. Among them were...
...Worst train wreck in U.S. history: 115 killed near Nashville, Tenn. in 1918. Worst train wreck of all time: more than 500 French soldiers, going home for Christmas leave, killed when an overloaded troop train plunged into an Alpine pass at St. Michel...
...time in following the precedent which he had previously used in his first days in Cleveland, and which had been laid down earlier and even more dramatically by Koussevitsky in his first years in Boston. At any rate, when the smoke cleared, fourteen members of the orchestra, including Michel Piastro, the concertmaster, had been effectively purged, and all efforts to force the Board of Trustees or Rodzinski to re-engage them for another season had, for unknown reasons, weakly faded away. The Philharmonic has, until this year, usually given only a series of 28 concerts during its regular season. When...