Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organize the League of German Officers, now a subcommittee of the National Committee. Erich Weinert was chosen chairman of Free Germany, and General Walther von Seydlitz, commander of the LI Army Corps at Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...
...Married. Rosa Prado, 20, chic, Paris-born amateur flyer and horsewoman, only daughter of Peru's President Manuel Prado y Urgarteche; and Hugo Peter Parks, 24, tall, freckled, British-educated son of Peru's socialite Clubwoman Mercedes Gallagher Parks and U.S. Citizen Henry W. Parks; in Lima, Peru...
Chicago's Saddle & Sirloin Club, famed hangout of U.S. meatpacking executives, got a notable gift last week. The gift: the 1½ by 3 ft. original sketch of Rosa Bonheur's nobly galumphing Horse Fair. The donor: doggy Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge, niece of John D. Rockefeller...
...portraits of distinguished cattle share honors with the cattlemen. Among them: the Duke of Northumberland, "the best Shorthorn bull in all England in 1839"; a charming oil of a Guernsey cow with dainty pink nostrils and eyelids. There is a two-foot bronze sculpture of a Belgian horse by Rosa Bonheur's gifted brother, Isadore...
Abracadabra. In Rio de Janeiro, Dona Rosa met an old friend she had not seen in five years, gave her the ritual hug (abraco&) of Rio residents, broke three of her ribs...