Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened its 1948 tour with a 33-day stand in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The show's biggest hit: Unus of Vienna, "gravity -defying equilibristic wonder" who balances himself on his forefinger on a glass ball, then does a one-hand stand atop a cane while twirling hoops with his feet, his mouth and his free hand...
While studying for his Ph.D. (philology) in Vienna, he tried his hand as a labor organizer; he ran up against anarchists who tried to break up his meetings. "They had a technique," he says. "They'd gradually move forward as if absorbed by what I was saying. Then they would ask increasingly menacing questions. When they had you against the wall, you were in their hands. I developed a habit of talking from near a window, with the window at my back. That gave me two advantages: I could see the faces of my enemies, and I could jump...
This week, as the Concertgebouw gets ready to celebrate its 60th birthday, there is only one orchestra in Europe that can approach it in perfection and polish-Vienna's 100-year-old Philharmonic (TIME, March 29). Europe had heard and judged: in the last year, the sprightly Concertgebouw has played 17 concerts in foreign countries. After its London concert, the Daily Mail reflected sadly: "This famous orchestra plays with a keenness and vitality that we are not used to in London." The Manchester Guardian admitted: "We could match its players, but not the quality of execution that could come...
...World Student Fund Relief Campaign swung into action today, reports and letters describing the reception of food overseas continued to arrive at th drive's headquarters. The letters come directly from the recipients of Harvard's donation of last spring, students in Athens, Peiping, Warsaw, Vienna and Salzburg...
...much good these helpful hints accomplished was demonstrated one day last week when Russian soldiers seized a middle-aged woman at 9 a.m., at one of Vienna's busiest intersections. She struggled desperately as she was pulled into the Russian jeep. To establish her identity, she tossed her handbag to a bewildered Austrian policeman. The Russians patiently stopped their jeep, and took the handbag from the policeman. Then they drove off with the woman...