Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starred tanks of Marshals Fedor I. Tolbukhin and Rodion Y. Malinovsky knifed nearer Vienna, the old Habsburg capital where the Nazi Führer first paraded as a conqueror. They reached Wiener-Neustadt, bomb-battered center through which supplies flow to Germans in Yugoslavia and Italy. The great Austrian and Czechoslovakian industries, which at the end of 1944 were supplying some 60% of German war production, were threatened...
...London dispatch to the New York Times said that Russia would occupy the richest industrial and mineral areas (Lower Austria and the upper part of Styria, including the factory-studded Vienna basin) and the richest agricultural province (Burgenland); the U.S. would get Upper Austria (scenery, orchards, cereals, salt, timber, water power); Britain would occupy Carinthia, the Tyrol, Vorarlberg and the lower part of Styria (Alpine scenery, water power, cattle). Unmentioned were the famed province and city of Salzburg (winter sports, music), which might go to France as a sop to its Big Power ambitions...
Student and Stowaway. A meteoric manager, Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz) is a volcanic man. Born in Newark (though he later said he was born in Vienna), he read omnivorously at Yale for two years, then quit. He bummed his way west and then abroad, coming home a stowaway in a tramp steamer. Home now meant Broadway. Harris became a press agent for the Shuberts and "stamped and cried with rage" at the way his bosses butchered scripts. When he had saved up $3,000 he started producing...
...Wechsberg is a bland, dark, persistent man of 38 who started out in life to be a concert violinist. In pursuit of the bluebird of happiness, he has wandered far afield. In addition to fiddling on transatlantic ships and in European cabarets, he has been a professional claqueur in Vienna, a croupier in Nice, a politician's secretary in Prague, a war reporter-photographer in Persia, Ethiopia, China and the South Seas, a malt salesman in Venezuela, a soldier in his native Czechoslovakia, a lecturer on democracy in the U.S. He is currently with the U.S. Army...
Credit for the suave showmanship went to Conductor Karl Kreuger, 50, U.S.-born, Vienna-trained, one of the four top native-born maestros in the U.S. (the others: Leonard Bernstein, Werner Janssen, Alfred Wallenstein). Maestro Kreuger had snatched up Detroit's baton late in 1943, whipped his 110 players into shape in record time. Carnegie Hall rewarded his energy with a favorable verdict: Detroit's music is as lush, efficient, unsubtle and breath-taking as Detroit's glamor-drawings of the postwar family sedan...