Word: wenzel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five honor diplomas were awarded to Lieutenants Irving R. Cohen, Edmund A. Mounis, John T. Brogdon, James Grear, and Winton W. Wenzel...
Chicago-born Alfred Wallenstein is the fifth-great-grandnephew of famed General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, who made history by his fighting in the Thirty Years' War, which ruined Europe a good bit more than World War II to date. When he was eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under...
...first to die was Kelly's pal, William Wenzel. Then the cook, with $163 in his pockets, stepped casually over the bulwarks, remarking: "I'm just going across the street to get some pineapples." Another shipmate, dying, begged: "Just leave my mouth open when I'm gone so that I can get plenty of water...