Word: passau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passau (July 27-Aug. 18) started its "European Weeks" with the hazy purpose of furthering European integration. That purpose was soon neglected, but the festival shows signs of thriving anyway, partially because of Passau's picturesque location at the confluence of the Inn, the Hz and the Danube. This yearns highlights: a performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony by the Bamberg Symphony under Joseph Keilberth; Bruckner's C Major Organ Prelude, played on the cathedral organ; two evenings of ballet danced by the Ljubljana Slovene National Opera and Ballet on the banks of the Danube...
Died. James M. Leech, 46, boilermaker, onetime U.S. Army captain and prime suspect in the fire and ax murders (Jan. 7, 1946) of three fellow officers while they slept in a villa near Passau, Germany; of burns suffered when an oil-filled tank he was welding caught fire; in Lima, Ohio. After a series of bungled Army investigations in 1946, the case was reopened three times but never came to trial. Leech steadfastly claimed his innocence, was not officially charged with the murders until 1954. Charges against him were dropped last year...
...Bavaria and western Austria, rain fell steadily for two weeks. The Inn, Traun, Enns and Ilz Rivers, swollen and heavy with flotsam, emptied into the surging Danube. At points of confluence, Passau and Linz, there was catastrophe. At Linz, in three days, the Danube doubled in width and tripled in depth, forcing 15,000 people to leave their homes. At Passau the river stage was 40 feet, 22 inches higher than the previous record...
...musicians who were languishing in other Army jobs, General Eddy was enthusiastic, put his three-starred authority fully behind the venture. The following summer the outfit made a tour of Germany and even hired itself out as pit orchestra for a production of The Marriage of Figaro at the Passau festival...
...Poles, who flew an aged biplane from Poland across Red Czechoslovakia to land near Passau, in West Germany...