Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economically, the outlook was dim. Food shortages would reach a crisis point by May. Last week, strikes protesting food shortages flared briefly in Vienna factories. The Reds agitated to prolong the strikes, circulated an ominous rumor among the workers: "Watch your step. Austria's next, and you have to account for yourself when the Communists take over...
...Vienna, Joseph Mayerhofer, little-noted foster brother of Hitler, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment by a People's Court. The onetime colonel in the Brown Shirts was found guilty of having been a Nazi...
...18th Century Paris, when Franz Anton Mesmer developed his controversial technique. It was first called mesmerism and then hypnotism (from a Greek word meaning sleep). In Mesmer's day, "magnetism" was the scientific catchword that "atomic" is today. Mesmer had already been kicked out of his native Vienna for acting on his belief that people got sick when they ran short of "magnetic fluid." He was out to show Paris that he could relieve the shortage. The Mesmer clinics are described in two recently published books: Hypnotism Comes of Age, by Bernard Wolfe and Raymond Rosenthal (Bobbs-Merrill...
...parents were very good that way"). He took lessons for only seven years, still hates to practice and seldom does (says he: "I practice in my head"). His teacher, who was,a close friend of Brahms, took him along on several of Brahms's famed walks in the Vienna woods. Schnabel loves to debunk the pressagent story that Brahms discovered him at his first recital, and praised his genius: "I fully expect to read some day that I played billiards with Mozart." Adds Schnabel, with a burgher's chuckle: "The only thing Brahms ever said...
Died. Robert Kronfeld, 43, top-ranking international glider expert; in a glider crash; in Alton, Hampshire, England. Holder of early sailplane records, Vienna-born Kronfeld helped plan many of wartime Britain's airborne operations...