Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Being the son of Arthur Schnitzler, I should like to ask you where you got this information? As far as I know, my father's only niece lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. . . . I remember very well Mr. Antheil's stay in Vienna, where I had the opportunity of meeting him once or twice. However, I was rather surprised to learn from TIME that I should regard Mr. Antheil as a relative of mine. Of course, it might be possible that I don't know my own family. At any rate, you will understand my curiosity and forgive...
...tons. On the day before that, U.S. day-flying bombers from Britain had attacked Brunswick. On the day after, the U.S. heavies struck again, this time at Augsburg and Ulm. After dark the R.A.F. swarmed out again, to Amiens and Clermont-Ferrand. Next day the U.S. punch fell on Vienna; at night the R.A.F. attacked Sofia...
Freddie Kuh wanted to be a newspaper man "from the time I quit wanting to be a streetcar conductor." At the University of Chicago "I ran the college paper and studied billiards." He was in Vienna in 1919 when the London Daily Herald made him its Balkans reporter. United Press got him four years later, sent him to Moscow and Berlin. When the Nazis made it hot for him after he had reported their Reichstag arson plot as just that, he moved on to London. Marshall Field lured...
...been in riots in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, never got a scratch. In London a bomb passed through his apartment down to the basement; there were no casualities. No Pulitzer or other prize has ever come to him. Says he: "But once I won a Kewpie doll, throwing rings around a cane at Berlin's Luna Park...
Garbage and Cripples. He wandered about Vienna, a Rip van Winkle living on dreams of court splendor; sometimes awakened by the sound of rifle fire and the sight of mobs pouring through the street...