Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Career: Elected to Parliament in 1931 for a Bedfordshire seat that he has held ever since. As elegant backbencher he praised Franco, Mussolini and Hitler, joined the Friends of Franco, and overenthusiastically defended Munich ("Hitler could absorb Czechoslovakia and Britain could remain secure"). When Churchill replaced Chamberlain and obviously had little relish for Lennox-Boyd's views, he joined the coastal navy, but continued to show up in the House of Commons every time his escort vessel touched a Channel port. He caught the eye of the late Oliver Stanley, an imperialist Tory who was rethinking Britain...
...wowed the crowd. In Amsterdam, U.S. Coloratura Soprano Marilyn Tyler accepted a rush call to sing Violetta in La Traviata, although she sang in unpopular German while the rest of the cast sang in Italian. After the first act, a year's contract was offered to her. In Munich, U.S. Tenor Howard Vandenburg arrived unannounced, auditioned and was hired on the spot. All over Europe, and especially in Germany, young American singers are singing for European audiences, hoping to follow in the paths of such Europe-polished Americans as Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens, Contralto Jean...
...teams (14 from countries outside the Soviet bloc) to compete as "national teams" in the long run (twelve days of pedaling, one day's rest). "There isn't one of them who could place in the first 30 in the Tour de France," grumbled a Munich sports editor last week. But, wherever they came from, the cyclists, at least, took the race seriously. And their determination was, as usual, sufficient to make the competition for a big bomb-shaped "peace" cup something less than pacific...
This year it will open its continental concert series with a performance for the Holland Festival at the Hague, then will sing in Belgium and Paris. Concerts are also arranged for Tours and Orleans in France, Siena and Perugia in Italy, Freiburg and Munich in Germany, Cambridge and Buckingham in England...
...accused Britain and France of turning Hitler eastward against Russia, of betraying Russia at Munich-leaving the Soviet Union no choice but to conclude the Hitler-Stalin pact in self-defense. As he blustered on into a discussion of World War II which depicted Russia as beating Germany singlehanded, the irrepressible Brown muttered: "God forgive you!" Khrushchev stopped abruptly...