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Schiaparelli of the stretch pants is snowy-haired Maria Bogner, 47, stunning wife of former German Olympic Ski Star Willy Bogner. In 1950, after Bogner's release as a prisoner of war (he had been an SS lieutenant), Willy and Maria bought a small factory just south of Munich, started making and selling sportswear. One day a salesman arrived with a bolt of a Swiss-patented kink-nylon and wool-yarn fabric called Helanca. It stretched up, down and sideways, then sprang miraculously back into shape. Maria ordered some and set about turning it into ski pants. Still svelte...
...Hitler and for resisting him, but his sympathies obviously lie with the appeasers. Germany, he argues, had a right as a great power to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936, even though Winston Churchill, among others, felt that Hitler could have been easily stopped and probably toppled from power. At Munich, writes Taylor, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain saved the peace and served the principle of self-determination, i.e., by handing a slice of Czechoslovakia to Germany because a lot of Germans lived there. Writes Taylor: "It was a triumph of all that was best and most enlightened in British life...
...memory but also helped preserve the memory of Venezuela-born Composer Reynaldo Hahn. A pampered favorite of Parisian society. Hahn was the man on whom Proust modeled the character of Vinteuil, and at his death in 1947, Hahn was remembered chiefly for his friendship with Proust. Last week in Munich's Gärtner Theater, Hahn's little-known operetta, Ciboulette, was drawing delighted crowds -and moving critics to take a new look at the man who was once regarded as a precociously gifted composer...
...Elegant Dilettante. Until she was 20, Berlin-born Gabriele Münter thought that music would be her career; she had published a few songs, and she was an accomplished pianist. But she changed her mind, decided to become a painter, and soon headed for Munich, then and now a haven for the German avantgarde. In 1902 she started studying at a school called the Phalanx, an institution already intoxicated by the 20th century...
...greatest paintings and published his On the Spiritual in Art, which was almost the bible of abstraction. In 1916 the affair ended when Kandinsky decided to marry another woman. He gave Gabriele all the paintings he had done at Murnau (she later gave them to the city of Munich) and never mentioned her name again...