Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cologne's Architect Wilhelm Riphahn, 67, solved the problem of cramped space in a bombed-out lot close to Cologne's twin-spired cathedral by erecting a structure shaped approximately like an Aztec pyramid. The massive, $3,800,000 Cologne Opera House, due to open this May, devotes two-thirds of its interior space to the stage and storage areas (five stage settings can be erected at one time), seats 1,386 in the horseshoe orchestra floor and ring of bobsled-shaped boxes...
Died. Walther Wilhelm Bothe, 66, Prussian-born nuclear physicist who in 1930 produced unexpected radiation by bombarding beryllium with alpha particles, and thus led to the discovery of the neutron, in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his development and use of the "coincidence method" of measuring time with billionth-of-a-second accuracy; after long illness; in Heidelberg, West Germany...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra; Soloists ; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler; Victor, 2 LPs). A performance on a memorable occasion: the reopening of Wagner's Festspielhaus at Bayreuth in 1951. The recording has a predominantly heavy effect, partly because of foggy fidelity, and there are some sloppy attacks in the orchestra, but there are also some stunning bursts of choral sound, some impressive singing by soloists (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Hongen, Hans Hopf, Otto Edelmann), and some unique French horn performances in the scherzo...
...affirmative Kirkland debaters would give no definition of terms, since they were "self-evident," M. Robert Lifson '57 claimed. Debating with him was G. Brian Wilhelm '57, while Sheila Chandler '58 and Brenda Radcliffe '59 upheld the negative...
...rebuttal Wilhelm admitted that men go out with women who choose dishonor, but he added that "they don't marry them...