Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's portion of the Axis war on Great Britain continued last week to simmer on the back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...
Through the mind of the man who lay dying in Mexico may have passed visions of stirring revolutionary days: the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, which got him exiled to Siberia again; his escape to Vienna, where he wrote for Pravda; Balkan war correspondence from Constantinople in 1913; more plotting in Zurich and Paris; expulsion from France in 1916; Spain and ten weeks in the U. S., where he played in My Official Wife with Clara Kimball Young, worked as a waiter in a restaurant on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, edited a Bronx newspaper; his return to Russia after...
...Gift to Vienna. To replace Gauleiter Bürckel in Vienna, where a section of the famed Ringstrasse was last week renamed "Josef Bürckel Ring," Hitler selected a particularly luscious cherry from his political pie-poetic, youth-loving Baldur von Schirach, who last September publicly begged his Führer's permission to leave his job as Reich Youth Leader to help blitzkrieg France, returned last month with an Iron Cross and lieutenancy...
John Francis Knott, born in Austria, brought up in Iowa, had been drawing pictures for the Dallas News for five years when in 1910, aged 32, he knocked off work and went to Munich to become a painter. Another Austrian who had once loped to study art was in Vienna at that ime; but Adolf Hitler had been advised to try some other profession. Meanwhile, Student Knott returned to Texas, went back to the News as a cartoonist...
Among hundreds of European refugees who poured into the U. S. last week were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from...