Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nineteen years ago. when Vladimir Golschmann first picked up the baton of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, he hardly seemed the man St. Louisans would choose for a permanent conductor. He was Parisian to his tapering fingertips; St. Louis was used to a rich German accent in its music. In Paris, Golschmann had been a champion of the upstart modernists known as the French Six.* hardly a recommendation for a post in a city devoted to Mozart, Wagner and Brahms...
...liked to say that he chose them for "the salt in their veins"; they in turn called him "the Skipper." The son and grandson of sea captains, Skipper Seward had come to know as much about ships as any man could. He had stood on the deck of the German-built Leviathan on its trial run after World War I, had been called in to advise on the raising of the Normandie. He was special wartime consultant to Navy Secretary Frank Knox, reorganized the curriculum of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy at New London...
Died. Heinrich Ludwig Mann, 78, novelist (Henry, King of France; Professor Unrat), German intellectual who fled Hitler's Nazi regime in 1933, elder brother of Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...German propagandist George Sylvester Viereck,* Peter disowned his father's politics while still at Harvard, spent the war years as a sergeant with the Psychological Warfare Branch of the U.S. Army. Minus his flowing tie, 33-year-old Poet Peter becomes Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, Ph.D., a brilliant, right-of-center political theorist (Metapolitics; Conservatism Revisited) and associate professor of history at Mount Holyoke...
...drew a one-to-five-year sentence for failure to register all his activities as a German agent, was released for good behavior after serving 3½years (TIME, July...