Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former lawyer dropped a footnote on Fritz Kuhn, the Gauleiter of the German-American Bund, who was kicked out of the U.S. in 1945 after 17 years' residence: unmourned, unknown and broke, Kuhn died Nov. 14, 1951, of a heart attack, in a Munich hospital...
Ingalls himself has done anything but that. Brought up in the mountain country of Virginia, he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen and persuaded his father to let him study music in Germany. "In Munich," he says, "I learned how to ski and speak German and that I wasn't a musician." After a year in Germany Ingalls came back to enter Harvard with the class of '36. He majored in classics, and took his first Sanskrit course, "out of curiosity." In the spring of his first year, he was "dropped" for failing to show...
...days later, a postcard came from Zurich. A short time later, another card came from Munich, which read: "I feel like a man on parole reporting to my sponsor, Mr. Klein . . . Punctually yours, Thornton Wilder." Wilder moved on to Baden-Baden, then back to Munich, then to Innsbruck. London Correspondent A. T. Baker caught up with him there and spent four days with...
Last week in Munich, another Hungarian engineer-one who got away-was supplying the Voice with more facts about Hungarian railroading under the Communists. He was a young man who had left a farm only four years ago to go to Budapest and try his luck on the railroads. "There were many new locomotives on the roads then," he said, "but they were all heading east to Russia. All we had were old 'Truman 525.' " So called in derision, these were obsolescent U.S. locomotives sent over as stopgap aid before the Iron Curtain fell. Most were falling apart...
...night, the engineer who talked in Munich last week was at the throttle, driving a train of tank cars for Russia through a thick fog after 18 straight hours on the job. At last he dozed off. An alert switchman dropped a warning torpedo underneath his wheels in time to avoid a collision, but the young engineer was promptly arrested for sabotage. This is the rest of the story as he told...