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...admit to an occasional musical ray of light," said the Wiener Zeitung. "But essentially the work is dominated by that barrenness which has become a sign of progress but which is in reality a going-astray." Almost as if its critic had been in a different concert hall, the Kronen Zeitung reported that "seldom have the beauties of a score of this century been so visible, seldom has the genius of a master been so worthy of admiration as in the present case...
...York Times carried a paid advertisement in which over seventy scholars from the Boston area urged a re-evaluation of the Government's Cuban policy. The petition, constructed as an open letter to President Kennedy, was signed by Edmund Wilson, Lewis Mumford, Lillian Hellman, Harry Levin, Norbert Wiener, Reuben Brower, Albert Guerard, David Owen, Morton White and Eric Bentley, among others. It called for an attempt to "detach the Castro regime from the Communist bloc by working for a diplomatic detente and a resumption of trade relations...
Nearly every statement Beer had made about himself during the 23 years he had spent in Palestine and Israel was found to be untrue. He claimed to have been born in Vienna and to be one of the few Jews ever to graduate from Austria's respected Wiener Neustadt military academy. Security agents could not find a single Viennese Jew in Israel who had ever known Beer back in Austria. An Austrian Defense Ministry official said that Beer's name does not appear on the roster of former students at Wiener Neustadt. Beer's vaunted military heroism...
...baroness, and Lerner is proud that his present wife is an indirect descendant of Napoleon. Lerner would be unlikely to cross a street unless the trip made reasonable sense, but Loewe once flew with a friend from Los Angeles to Vienna just to taste again those wonderful Little Wiener Wrsteln, (Vienna frankfurters) that "spit in your mouth." Then he got on another plane and flew back to California. It was an epically impractical journey, but it did, however briefly, take him home...
...raconteur of such Parsons-Hopper-Lyons-Kilgallen glimpses of the jet set at play is not named Louella, Hedda, Leonard or Dorothy. He is Germany's Wiener-Schnitzel Winchell, Gossipist Hannes Obermaier, who writes a daily Page 2 column for Munich's tabloid Abendzeitung called "Hunter Jots Down''-the name Hunter coming from a brand of Dutch cigarettes that Obermaier likes. In the eight years that Obermaier has chronicled high life in Europe's low places, Abendzeitung's circulation has shot from 17,000 to 105,000. His bosses give him much...