Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death by Syringe. The doctor was a quiet, dark-haired, intense man of 41. As a youth he had been captain of the Dartmouth ski team; he had studied in Munich, had interned at Mountainside Hospital, Montclair, N.J., had practiced for years around Manchester. When he made his decision he carried it out quietly, with a trained physician's skill. He called a nurse, asked her for a hypodermic syringe; within a few minutes he made four 10 cc. injections of air into his patient's veins...
...nnhilde. The Met's other Brünnhilde, Astrid Varnay, was not available. Finally, at 4 p.m., someone recalled that the wife of new Viennese Baritone Ferdinand Frantz, who was scheduled to sing Wotan that night, had sung Brünnhilde in Vienna and Munich. Musical Director Max Rudolf picked up the phone and called Madame Frantz (stage name: Helena Braun...