Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flame") and a soldier (Private William Holden-"We'll marry the girl we like-and the guy who makes a crack about her ancestry had better look out for his teeth"). The final letter, from the U.S. foreign-born, will be sent this Sunday (5 p.m. E.W.T.) by Vienna-born Joseph Schildkraut...
...generous to assume that the Nazis were using a substitute for Best, but his voice was identified by fellow correspondents who heard him broadcast. William L. Shirer, who knew Best in Vienna, thought the soft café life had changed him. "Best, like few other American foreign correspondents, stayed too long in Europe. Unless you came home sometimes you began to go European. Best never came home, even for a brief vacation." TIME merely said that Best was a South Carolinian. Said he in his biography written for the internees' paper at Bad Nauheim Spa: "Born Sumter, S.C., 4/16...
...Vienna during the tragic days of the Anschluss, when Hitler's tanks and troops paraded endlessly through the silent streets—had his bags Gestapoed at the hotel every day for four days running by a Himmler agent with the odd habit of leaving little chromium swastikas as calling cards...
Emergence. Marseille studied psychology at Heidelberg and Berlin, got his Ph.D. in 1926 for a critical study of graphological theories, later practiced in Berlin and Vienna as consulting psychologist and personnel adviser for public-utility and industrial corporations. He left Austria on the eve of the Nazi invasion. In 1940 Paul Lazarsfeld, public-opinion researcher, retained him to make a handwriting analysis of mail received by several U.S. Senators during the debate on the conscription bill. His educational rating of the letter-writers (later checked by interviewers) attracted the attention of FORTUNE'S Elmo Roper, who is also...
Died. Paul Felix Weingartner, 78, famed German musical conductor; in Winterthur, Switzerland. No longer widely known in the U.S., he was nonetheless one of the world's greatest. He was conductor of the Berlin Symphony (before World War I), the Vienna Opera from 1908 to 1927, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony. He taught at the famed Conservatory in Basle, directed the Vienna State Opera in 1935 and 1936. Later he chose exile in preference to Anschluss...