Word: wilhelms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribute to their countryman, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on December 29. In honor of the anniversary, this year's festival has one of the most stellar lineups in its history. Violinists Alexander Schneider and David Oistrakh returned after several years' absence; Pianists Rudolf Serkin, Wilhelm Kempff and Julius Katchen took leave from crowded schedules to perform. It was a sentimental journey tinged with apprehension. "When a musician is almost 90," explained Katchen, "one may legitimately worry about how he is going to play...
...leaders who actually stood trial, eleven were sentenced to hang, seven received prison sentences, three were acquitted. Condemned to death, Reich Marshal Hermann Göring committed suicide by poison in his prison cell. Ten Nazis-including Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Armed Forces Chief Wilhelm Keitel, and General Alfred Jodl, Hitler's chief military adviser-died on the gallows...
...Prince Konstantin of Bavaria promised to bring the issue before the Bundestag, and he complained that a magazine of the "reputation and importance of Paris Match cannot be allowed to poison the political atmosphere for the purpose of creating a phony sensation." Said Die Welt's Munich correspondent Wilhelm Maschner, who has done some sober reporting of his own on German neo-Nazism: "Such false alarms tend to weaken resistance against the real causes for alarm...
...proved to be a disappointment in other respects. Unlike his father, Emperor Taisho, a dandy who liked to emulate Kaiser Wilhelm by waxing and curling his mustache and galloping around on a horse, Hirohito neither looked nor acted warlike. From a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little boy, he grew into a gentle, somewhat toothy, thin-chested little man, who loved nothing better than to go splashing around for specimens for his marine-biology collection. Unlike his bold and high-living grandfather, Emperor Meiji, who used to select his bed partner by dropping a silk handkerchief in front...
Died. Prince Friedrich of Prussia, 54, Kaiser Wilhelm's grandson and a gentleman farmer, who spent World War II as a volunteer farm laborer in England and became a British subject, but later returned home to resume his royal titles; by drowning, presumably suicide, the same day his wife of 20 years, Brewery Heiress Lady Brigid Guinness, started divorce action; in the Rhine River near Wiesbaden...