Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born the son of a South Carolina Methodist preacher, once a Pulitzer scholar in journalism, for 18 years U.P. correspondent in Vienna, Best had made some 300 broadcasts for the Nazis. He had demanded that Congress impeach "that paranoiacal paralytic in the White House," sue for peace, and join Hitler's war against Communism and "mankind's abomination and curse . . . namely, the Christ killers, the kikes, the damn hyphen Jews...
False Notes. Erica is interested in other things too: her jeweler-husband, her cooking. But ever since she used to hide in her father's classroom in Vienna as a tot of three and cry "false" when a student struck a sour note, music has always come first. Now a confirmed classicist, she says that contemporary music "is not music for me-I like to play a tune...
Cold Cigars. From Voisin's, Ritz moved on to successively bigger jobs in Nice, San Remo, Lucerne, Rome, BadenBaden, Vienna. He remembered and carefully catered to the whims of such tourists as Cornelius Vanderbilt (who liked to chew cold cigars), John Wanamaker (who asked "are you leading a Christian life?"), the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (who liked his beef well-done). On one of the jobs, César Ritz formed a lifelong partnership with an obscure chef named Auguste Escoffier...
...tempting way to tackle insanity. When it works, the results are quick and dramatic. Recently surgeons have been concentrating on the front part of the brain, isolating the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain (prefrontal lobotomy), or cutting part of it out (topectomy). Trying a new approach, Vienna-born Neurologist Ernest A. Spiegel and Brain Surgeon Henry T. Wycis, both of Philadelphia's Temple University, decided to work on the thalamus, at the base of the brain...
Died. Dr. Otto Marburg, 74, exiled Viennese neurologist, longtime good friend of the late great Sigmund Freud; of cancer; in Manhattan. Author of several standard texts on the nervous system, Dr. Marburg had been head of the University of Vienna's Neurological Institute for 19 years when he came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1938, joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology...