Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoax. But armies also have bureaucracies. The Defense Ministry, completing its routine file, needed additional documentation on Schneider's German citizenship. The city officials of Goslar could find none, and thus began the first unraveling of a forged life that resulted last week in Robert Schneider's standing trial in Bonn for 52 cases of fraud, 25 cases of falsification of documents, and various charges of unlawfully assuming academic titles. While all Germany guffawed at the hoax pulled on the new German army, the state prosecutor indignantly stated that the accused was plain Robert Schneider, 39, a house...
...this time the picture has stumbled along for i^ hours, and the moment has come for it to fall flat on its face. Griffith renounces adultery, plans to marry the girl from back home, helps his ship subdue a German sub, and exposes a crooked executive officer, all at flank speed. Director Norman Taurog, whose recent efforts have been largely limited to Martin and Lewis comedies, heaves enough whisky-pourings to float the Coast Guard for a week, but viewers may find some of his other humorous inventions less familiar. He seems to think it is laugh-provoking to throw...
...Francisco company has welcomed such artists as Tebaldi, Del Monaco, Christoff, Siminonato, Valletti, Gobbi, Schwarzkopf and Rysanek for their U.S. debuts, can boast a list of U.S. premieres that puts the Met to shame. Last week San Francisco gave the first U.S. stage performances of two short works by German Composer Carl Orff-Die Kluge and Carmina Burana. Other noted San Francisco firsts: Walton's Troilus and Cressida, Poulenc's Carmelites, Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake. Retorted Bing: "My congratulations and greatest respect to Mr. Adler for his daring to introduce these operas...
...dedicated art: "My gouaches, reliefs, plastics were an attempt to teach man what he had forgotten-to dream with his eyes open." Using a jig saw, he made inexpensive wood reliefs around such motifs as forks and mustaches (a favorite theme he has found laughable ever since he watched German soldiers primping for the Kaiser's birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts, was terribly upset when they...
Died. The Rt. Rev. George Kennedy Allen Bell, 75. Anglican Bishop of Chichester from 1929 until his retirement in January, vigorous anti-Nazi who sharply deplored British saturation bombing of German cities, once (1942) interceded unsuccessfully for a group of German conspirators who wanted British Government acquiescence in a plot to kill Hitler, and was a stern advocate of nuclear disarmament; in Canterbury, England...