Word: rhineland
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...Michigan, Christmas was hay rides, throaty caroling and hot chocolate. In New England, it was plum pudding and frosty trees. In the German immigrant towns of Wisconsin, the old men drank cognac and Löwenbräu and listened damp-eyed to old recordings of long-gone Rhineland carillons. In Georgia, the holiday mornings began with bacon, eggs, red-eye gravy, biscuits, grits, deer sausage, fried catfish, cornbread, buttermilk, waffles, French toast, hotcakes and heaps of fruit. In the afternoon the womenfolk gathered in the big kitchen to prepare scalloped oysters and smoked turkey, fried chicken and black-eyed...
Hours before curtain time, 10,000 people pressed behind police lines to watch the first-night show; many lingered till midnight at their sidewalk stations, peeping through the glass sides of the block-long building as the crowd inside washed down cookies with Rhineland champagne. A fleet of taxis and Mercedes limousines flowed onto Bismarckstrasse, off RichardWagner-Platz, to deliver the cream of West Berlin society, the entire West Berlin Senate, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, Federal President Heinrich Lübke, retired U.S. General Lucius Clay, and 21 assorted ambassadors up from Bonn for the occasion...
Count Crash. Count Wolfgang von Trips, who could have managed his family's Hemmersback Castle in the German Rhineland as a moneyed aristocrat, had a desperate desire to win. All through the summer, Von Trips, 33, and Phil Hill, 34, of Santa Monica, Calif., teammates in Italian Auto Magnate Enzo Ferrari's racing contingent, had dueled across the Continent for the world title.* Before the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the pale, slim German nobleman was just in front of the taut, nervous American in the competition for the Grand Prix championship. Victory at Monza would have given...
Died. Count Wolfgang Berghe von Trips, 33, last heir to a German title who forsook his Rhineland castle for the perils of sports-car racing; in a Grand Prix crack-up that killed 15 spectators, hospitalized another two dozen; in Monza, Italy (see SPORT...
Another first for Texas and the Clan Murchison-a unique manure! Here, in America's Rhineland, our Angus provide us with tons of the stuff. When it is heaped in the barn, no one's nose is offended. When it is spread through the vineyards, the effluvium floats for miles. Perhaps the Murchisons will be luckier in financial maneuvers than in choosing metaphors...