Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna-born Marie Hauser, 45, was deeply attached to the wife and family of her employer, Captain Daniel Sickles, art-collecting official of Langley Aviation Corporation of Port Washington. But she hated the Captain, whose collection of paintings was the pride of his Manhattan apartment. Three weeks ago, while Mrs. Sickles and the family were vacationing in Bermuda, the Captain ordered Marie to ready up his country place at Hampton Bays, Long Island, for weekend guests...
...greatest neuropathologists of Europe was last week denied a license to practice medicine in New York. In 1938 Dr. Otto Marburg and his wife left Vienna on the same train with their late great friend Sigmund Freud. They went to the U.S., Freud to Britain. In New York City, 66-year-old Dr. Marburg was given a Rockefeller research grant, a professor's title at Columbia, a laboratory in vast Montefiore Hospital...
...these honors gave him scarcely enough money to live on. Although in Vienna he had treated 3,000 patients a year, poor as well as rich, he had to apply for a license to practice in New York. Twice the Board of Regents refused him a license, insisted that he take an examination in the whole field of medicine, like any young medical student (an impossibly tough obstacle for a specialist who left medical school 42 years ago). Last spring, moved by the pleas of top-flight neurologists, the Appellate Division called the Regents unreasonable, ordered them to give...
Gottfried Bermann-Fischer's firm in Germany which 40 years ago brought out Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and thereafter sold 1,300,000 copies. The doctor opposed the Nazis even after Hitler came to power, moved his business to Vienna, fled with his family to Switzerland, to Stockholm, finally...
With a composition as clean as an Airacobra's wing, Vienna-born Posterman Joseph Binder won $500 for the best design for Army Air Corps recruiting. A deft color job that made the most of his abstractionist science won Painter John Atherton of Ridgefield, Conn, first money for the best poster boosting Treasury defense bonds. The Treasury announced that it would purchase Atherton's winner and 16 others. The Army promised to take a look at the best work in the Army Air Corps division...