Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swinging through Europe, on a hangman's holiday, which will take him to Vienna, Graz, northern Italy and (reportedly) to Nürnberg in time to officiate should Nazi leaders be hanged: Albert ("Yungg Alber"*) Pierrepoint, Britain's Senior Hangman. In Vienna, Pierrepoint will hang eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help...
Conflicting reports have Tito: 1) in Spain as a "trusted man" with the International Brigade; 2) in Vienna, Prague and Paris as a member of the Communist International's roving undercover political bureau; 3) in Vienna as a university student (Tito still speaks German with Vienna's sloppy accent); 4) in Switzerland; 5) in Moscow and Leningrad taking courses in partisan warfare at revolutionary finishing schools; 6) in Moscow, as Comintern representative of the Yugoslav Communists...
...them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine, he walked more than 400 miles from his native Lemberg to Vienna to study piano. At 14, he was made court pianist by Rumania's Prince Carol I. He became Liszt's star pupil, and practiced six hours a day to master the nuances of technique, played command performances all over Europe, exchanged ideas and mutual congratulations with Brahms and Johann Strauss in Vienna cafes...
Last week in Manhattan, his adopted home since Hitler occupied his beloved Vienna, death came at 83 to Moriz Rosenthal, last of the famous pupils of Liszt...
Last week their fears were dispelled. Surgeon Bohler, now back in Vienna, has performed nearly 400 nail operations, on old fractures as well as new, without a single infection. No interference with the blood supply has been observed. Bohler recently published description of the operation, Die Marknagelung Nach Kuntscher is one of the most sought-after medical books in Europe, and the German factory in Kiel which makes the nails is far behind demand...