Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in Canada, Hans Rott, onetime Austrian Secretary of State for Labor, mentioned the half-forgotten name of a politician who once tried to double-cross Hitler at his own game: Kurt von Schuschnigg. In a heatless, lightless cell on the top floor of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna's dingy Metropol Hotel. Austria's last Chancellor, doomed to slow death, is almost blind, according to Rott, as a result of Gestapo torture...
Died. Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg, 83, 1927 Nobel Prizewinner who in 1917 inoculated a paretic with the blood of a malaria-poisoned soldier, risking medical censure to establish the fever cure for syphilitic paralysis; after a long illness; in Vienna...
Laced as it is with mountains, this area is larger than it looks. Vienna at the western edge of the map is no farther from the Atlantic Ocean than it is from the Crimea in the eastern half of the map. The Hungarian Plain-the fringes of which are shared by Germany, Yugoslavia and Rumania is roughly as large as the northern half of France. After the Danube escapes from this plain through the Iron Gate it emerges into another plain, the northern part of which belongs to Rumania, the southern part to Bulgaria. But the biggest and most fertile...
...fatuous sugar-daddy is O. E. Eisenschiml. Philosopher and humane eccentric, he is also a successful businessman. Born in Vienna, he emigrated to the U. S. in 1901, worked for six months cleaning toilets in a Pittsburgh steel mill, eventually became chief chemist of American Linseed Co. at $15,000 a year (twice the salary of his boss). In 1912 he left to manage his own company. With but $75 in capital he planked a boiler directly on the Indiana-Illinois State line, could say he was manufacturing in the other State if anyone asked for his license...
...clucks and scratches sound like a hen yard. The strings of the harpsichord, controlled by a full keyboard and pedals, are plucked by quills, instead of being struck by hammers like the piano's. For an oldtimer, the harpsichord is still stepping lively. Last week Vienna-born Yella Pessl, who has given 70-odd harpsichord programs on the radio (CBS) since last June, returned to the air after a brief vacation. While she was away, her place had been taken by comely Harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, who plink-a-plunked not only 18th-Century tunes but rolling, rocking-rhythmed...