Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mme. Berta Morena, 74, German-born, oldtime soprano of the Munich Opera (1898-1924) and the Metropolitan Opera (1908-12; 1924-25), famed for her good looks and spectacular voice (her specialty: Wagner); after long illness; at her home in Rottach, Germany...
...America." The visitor passes caskets and kings, prophets and snarling gargoyles, and even one "wise" and one "foolish" virgin. Off the main foyer is a pleasant patio with a pool, overlooked by the Brunswick lion. This is a copy of the statue erected by Henry the Lion, founder of Munich...
Korea, corruption, and prosperity highlighted F.D.R., Jr.'s half-hour talk before a packed Stevenson rally in the Brattle Theatre last night. Speaking at the end of an eighty-minute rally sponsored by the Cambridge Volunteers for Stevenson, he called the Taft-Eisenhower meeting at Columbia University the "Munich of Morningside Heights" and referred to the Senator as "six-star General Taft...
...mayor-of the town of Regensburg. When he discovered that many members of his audience hadn't understood a word, he repeated the talk in German. Another talk was given in Russian, to a group of Russian refugees for whom a radio station is being set up in Munich to beam its broadcasts to the peoples of Russia. At the time Scott spoke, the project was stalemated because of differences among the refugees themselves. One hassle was over names. The rightist refugees were against using the word "Soviet," because they felt the Soviet government had no legal existence...
...Munich one morning last week, a little boy named Hans Koegel appeared at the doorway of the Schule in der Blu-menstrasse and nervously entered. Like other children arriving for the first day of school, he clung tightly to his mother, and it was not for several awkward moments that he finally relaxed enough to smile tentatively at his classmates. But even after he did so, his mother and teacher continued to watch him closely...