Word: wilhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strip your Louis Quatorze of his king-gear," rumbled Thomas Carlyle one day, "and there is left nothing but a poor, forked radish with a head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...
...main difficulty, says the prince, is that he has always been too individualistic. Not that he minded when his father, Crown Prince Wilhelm, with Prussian humor, jovially smeared mashed potatoes in his face. He even enjoyed it when the Crown Prince emptied a jug of water over him and his elder brother Wilhelm as they lay in bed at night. Lulu objected, however, when his governess made him eat soap as a minor punishment, and he got fighting mad when tangled in royalism's red tape. Once, when he was about seven, he slipped free...
Died. Bishop Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer, 71, head (since 1946) of the Methodist Church in Germany, an organizer of the Council of Evangelical Churches of Germany, chairman of a 1945 Methodist congress in Frankfurt which passed resolutions of "guilt and repentance" for Germany's war guilt; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
Both Germans and hyphenated Americans developed the Museum. It was the dream of Kuno Franke, Professor of German History. Its first pieces were gifts of Kaiser Wilhelm, while Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis malt-and-hops king, and his son-in-law, Hugo Reisinger endowed the building itself...
With great relish he broke a story that two war criminals had escaped from Werl. Luftwaffe Pilot Hans Kühn had murdered three Allied flyers who parachuted down in 1943; Private Wilhelm Kappe had killed a Russian prisoner of war. According to Der Stern, the two escaped while working outside the jail walls, and were given a ride by a passing motorist who gladly picked them up though he could not help but recognize their war-criminal insignia...