Word: von
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...move simply involves the general extension of the procedure already used in National Scholarships, Freshman Dean Delmar Leighton '19 explained in the absence of F.S. Von Stade, Jr. '38, scholarship director...
...learned his mistake. When Hitler's ambassador, Vicco Karl von Bülow-Schwante, arrived to announce the invasion on the morning of May 10, Spaak shut him off: "No, you are not going to read this to me. I know what it is ... I am the one who is going to speak, and what I have to say is-get the hell out of here." Spaak went to France when his country fell, escaped through Spain to London, after hiding from Franco's police in the bottom of an orange-laden truck...
...appeasement between the wars, sharpening the drama of the history with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, sharp cameos of those in the center of the stage, and pithy summings-up-generalizations like a bold sweeping together of muscular arms. In telling how Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop had been entertained at No. 10 Downing Street the day Austria was invaded by the Nazis, Churchill's finis to the episode is like an ax-stroke: "This was the last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop before he was hanged...
Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...
Died. Wilhelm von Opel, 76, Germany's gruff, free-heiling mass-producer of autos; in Wiesbaden, Germany. He inherited his father's bicycle factory in the '90s, turned out his first all-German car in 1902, produced about a million with the help of Ford's assembly-line techniques, which he admittedly "stole with my eyes" during a visit to Detroit...