Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirty Missions. Under a host of different names and forged passports, he was sent from one European country to another and ordered to use his actor's skill to pass himself off as a native. In 1943, by his own account, he directed the assassination of German Gauleiter Wilhelm Kube in Minsk. After a hasty cram course in German, he was planted in a camp for German P.W.s. In 1947, he was granted Rumanian citizenship under the name Stanislaw Lewandowski. But for all his success and all his skill, Khokhlov was far from happy as an undercover agent...
...elegant inflection of European royalty in 31 nostalgically surrealist paintings on exhibit in the Carstairs Gallery. His theme: memories of his own fairy-tale childhood spent among crowned and sceptered relatives in castles, palaces and splendiferous watering places (he is also a great-grandnephew of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, a cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth...
...Mass.; Stewart Ogden, Louisville, Ky.; Harold P. Santmire of Buffalo, N. Y.; Stephen L. Singer of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Glenn E. Sisler of Birmingham, Mich.; Barry L. Wasserman of Brookline, Mass.; Francis J. Weller Jr. of Pelham, N. Y.; David L. Whitman of Chappaqua, N. Y.; Gayle B. Wilhelm (Mgr.) of Amherst, Mass...
...majors. Willie Mays' return from the Army has seemingly done wonderful things for the team's morale and of course strengthened it greatly in center field. In addition, the old-time pitching big three--Hearn, Maglie and Jansen--have pleasingly returned to form. With Gomez, Antonelli, Liddle, Wilhelm and Spencer this makes a pretty potent staff which could conceivably carry the team to the pennant...
...Wilhelm Backhaus was delighted with his success, but he was not sure about coming back for an extended tour. "I am too old. After all, one must face the fact." On the other hand, he has just completed a heavily booked tour of Europe. Reminded of this, he admitted: "At the piano I feel young enough...