Word: nephew
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Faculty and students and administrators live and eat and study in Leopoldskron, an amazing castle whose life Salzburgians say only the arrival of the Seminar saved. Built in 1740 by Archbishop Firmian for his nephew, it became the property during the 'twenties of Germany's famous producer, Max Reinhardt. After the establishment of the Salzburg Festival as a yearly event, Leopoldskron became the center of planning for the festivals and, as Reinhardt's home, the cultural beacon of the city. Reinhardt fled to America before the Nazis, who used the castle for themselves, and with Reinhardt's subsequent death...
...stocky, solemn Luis Batlle, 50, presidential responsibilities came easily. He was the favorite nephew of his late great uncle, President José Batlle y Ordoñes, whose social laws gave Uruguay its name for progressive democracy. He has been in politics since he was 25. But politics has not been his only activity. He has had a radio station, Radio Ariel, over which many an Argentine and Paraguayan exile has broadcast. Every afternoon Luisito goes to the Café Montevideo on Avenida 18 Julio to gossip over coffee. He drives his car at high speed, likes to box. After...
...World War I school for Army bandmasters. Among those who passed through its famed English gardens and composition classes were Aaron Copland, Walter Piston and Dick Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hart). In the early '20s, Composer Francis Casadesus had run the music school. Present director: his famed nephew, Pianist Robert Casadesus, whose wife, Pianist Gaby, is also on the faculty...
...Nephew of John T. Underwood, first president of the typewriter company...
...pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate: Manhattan-born Edis de Philippe had studied under Garden...