Word: stalag
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...Corporal Rocco Barbella in Phil Silvers' TV show, You 'II Never Get Rich; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A military motif threaded through the career of Lembeck, a World War II veteran. He played a prisoner of war in the Broadway and Hollywood versions of Stalag 17, a duty sergeant in the film The Last Time I Saw Archie and a soldier in the movie Back at the Front...
William Holden, 63, whose rugged good looks and raspy baritone graced more than 50 films, including Sunset Boulevard, Picnic, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Network. He won an Oscar in 1953 for his hard-bitten prisoner of war in Stalag...
...hard-punching innocent in Golden Boy (1939), but his appeal for the next 40 years was that of the man's man, cocky and cynical, meeting the demands of any situation head-on and with no sweat. He could lead a troop of renegade soldiers out of Stalag 17 (for which he won his Oscar as Best Actor) or across The Bridge on the River Kwai. He was equally at home on the range, leading The Wild Bunch to one last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace of inherited wealth (his father ran a chemical...
...This week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, Klemperer is definitely out of Luftwaffe uniform and appears in turban and robe as Turkish Pasha Selim, a nonsinging role in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. The role is not a one-shot stop from the stalag for Klemperer. The son of famed Conductor Otto Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; next spring he will do the narration of Beethoven's Egmont with the New York Philharmonic. Klemperer remains fond of Klink. Those residuals still trickle...
...then gave Kentucky its only Southeastern Conference title-and an N.C.A.A. probation for recruiting violations. In 1954 he moved on to Texas A&M, and it was there that the teeth in the Bear showed most clearly. His first training camp, held at Junction, Texas, was closer to Stalag 17 than a gathering of young athletes. Two busloads, 115 players on football scholarships, went to Junction. When it was over, 27 men remained on the roster. The surviving Aggies won a single game that year, the only losing season in Bryant's 34-year career as a head coach...