Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newspapers complained that too many of the stories they got from the Associated Press were wooden and hard to read. But none of them would-or could-say why. To find out what was wrong, the A.P. hired Dr. Rudolf Flesch, Vienna-born psychologist, author (The Art of Plain Talk) and Mr. Fix-It of writing. Dr. Flesch's report shocked...
...reports of the street fights in Berlin. In that period before and just after Hitler took power, the books coming out of Germany had a confused, bitter, gnarled violence foreshadowing the impending catastrophe. It was probably one of the ugliest periods in literary history. Hermann Broch, born in Vienna and now living in exile in the U.S. (he was jailed when the Nazis invaded Austria), was an eminent Austrian novelist; The Sleepwalkers, a massive and gloomy trilogy, which he calls a philosophical essay, is his big book...
...came across the 28 dusty boxes which Stephen Blau had pawned. They contained paintings, coins, stamps and jewels worth 8,000,000 bolivianos ($200,000). The stamp collection alone was appraised at $30,000. A will was found leaving part of the fortune to his mother and nieces in Vienna, the rest to the President of Austria for charities...
...news spread, one Jorge Blau wrote from Bolivia's northeastern jungle to say that he was Stephen's brother. Austrian representatives in Rio filed a claim. A search was begun for the heirs in Vienna. Last week, the La Paz courts were trying to decide what should be done with the fortune of this old beggar who apparently forgot that he had 8,000,000 bolivianos stored away...
...long ago, on street hoardings and building walls in Vienna, there appeared a slick American poster bearing a message stamped across an Austrian ration card (see cut). The message read: "Sixty percent of your ration is a present from American aid for Austria. The money that you pay for it stays in the country. The Austrian government uses it to help the needy...