Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head of the ring and a "professional spy"; Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, mop-haired artist's model, whose tiptoe trail zigzagged from Vienna to New York, through embassies and drawing rooms. "One of the most active, extensive and vicious groups we have ever had to deal with," Mr. Hoover declared...
...Vienna. One day Correspondent Shirer confided to his diary: "Have started, God help me, a novel. . . ." Three days later he made another jotting: "Trouble in Spain. . . ." Before the "trouble in Spain" was over, Shirer had finished his novel, changed jobs (from Universal to Columbia Broadcasting System), moved to Vienna. There he made another casual entry in his diary: "Much tension here this Sabbath. Schuschnigg has had a secret meeting with Hitler at Berchtesgaden. ..." Next thing Shirer knew the Nazis were in Vienna...
...Germany's Minister to Austria when in 1933 Adolf Hitler climbed into power. Dr. Rieth stayed on in Vienna, was soon knee-deep in Nazi intrigue. After the assassination by Nazi gunmen of Austria's brave little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Minister Rieth was recalled to Berlin, replaced by his good friend Franz von Papen...
...European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354. In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans. Selim the Grim (1512-20) took Syria and Egypt. Suleiman the Magnifi cent (1520-66) conquered Persia and Hungary, got as far as the gates of Vienna before retiring to consolidate his conquests...
...Serenade," at the Fine Arts, can not boast of any the attributes which make other French films so superior to our domestic productions. In the first place, it does not quite know whether it wants to be musical comedy or a story of Schubert's early life in Vienna. If it were the latter it would have to be rather morose, since Schubert's existence in these years was anything but gay. If it were the former it would have to be fast-moving and tuneful, since by definition a musical comedy is both of these. But instead of restricting...