Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Vienna, TIME Correspondent John Walker cabled...
...highway, put-putting toward Vienna, was a motorcycle carrying Herman Reitman, well-known Viennese motorbike rider, and a woman companion, Katharina Grünhut. A light sedan going faster in the same direction came up from behind and apparently started to pass. Then inexplicably the vehicles swerved together, the motorcycle bounced off to the side of the road, where its two passengers lay groaning. A few passers-by ran up to them. The sedan braked to a stop farther down the road and the driver climbed out and walked back. Taking a hasty glance at the scene, he drew...
...CONGRESS OF VIENNA (312 pp.)-Harold Nicolson-Harcourt, Brace...
...Ariadne, Manhattan's up-&-coming City Opera Company cast tall, stately, 38-year-old Ella Flesch, a Hungarian exile who had once been Composer Strauss's own choice for the part. A soprano prodigy ("In my cradle I had tones") she sang Aïda at the Vienna State Opera Company when she was 18. Four years later Strauss heard her sing Rosenkavalier. He put her into the leads in Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten...
...Died. Baroness Eugene ("Kitty") de Rothschild, 61, famed beauty of pre-World War I Vienna's glittering court society, close friend of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, whose titled third husband is a member of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Glen Cove...