Word: eberhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian Guardia Rossa, the German Thaelmann-Bataillon, the French Au Devant de la Vie (music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding march time. The one which gives the album its name was composed by a German, Eberhard Schmitt, in the camp at Gurs. Its chorus, translated (not quite so lame in the original...
...diplomats contributed to the relief fund. Italian Ambassador Francesco Lequio gave 10,000 pesetas in the name of Benito Mussolini, "always a friend of Spain." U. S. Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell's wife gave 10,000 pesetas, Rumania's onetime King Carol 3,000, German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer a "generous contribution." British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare announced that two ships laden with grain for Britain would be diverted to Santander. Everybody wanted to do something neighborly for politically strategic Spain...
...medium distances are also fairly strong with Tim Coggeshall and Paul Alken running in the 600 and Charlie Eberhard and Alan Pifer competing in the 300. In general, it seems that as the distances grow shorter, the Yardlings' ability also seems to fizzle, with the result that the dashes are unreliable and Exeter proved that the team must depend on the distances...
Freda & Ida won dozens of prizes, judges were often confused: Eberhard Faber (pencils) put Freda first ($50), Ida second ($25), while the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts reversed the order. Finally the twins thought perhaps they had better get away from each other's influence. Freda went to the Academy; Ida stayed at Moore Institute. It didn't work. When the twins graduated separately, they still painted alike...