Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AMSTERDAM, the Concertgebouw row was settled. Musicians who had walked out in the uproar over German Conductor Paul van Kempen (TIME, Feb. 12) agreed to come back. Management tacitly agreed that the conductor would be somebody besides Van Kempen...
...Kempen was born Dutch and had been a Concertgebouw first violinist at 17. He had, years later, become conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic and a German citizen. That was not so bad, but Van Kempen conducted in The Netherlands during the occupation, a few times for the benefit of the Wehrmacht. Many a Dutchman found it hard to forgive that. The musicians warned that Van Kempen would be "a source of pain." Nevertheless, the Amsterdam town council voted, 21 to 17, to hire...
...purists who consider Wagnerian opera just brassy, pretentious twaddle about supermen, but they are a musical minority. Bayreuth is much less concerned with defending Wagner's music than with denazifying him-and, if possible, giving an internationalist, pro-democratic profile to the man who called himself "the most German of the Germans...
...Alpe-d'Huez, France, the German four-man bobsled team over the U.S and Switzerland, setting a course record of 1 min. 11.65 sec. and making a clean sweep of sled titles in Germany's first postwar try at the world championships. ¶In Seattle, Dick Button, 21, world figure-skating champion, for his sixth consecutive national title. ¶In Boston, Miler Don Gehrmann, for his sixth straight victory over FBI-man Fred Wilt, in the track-record time...
Died. E. H. Ferdinand Porsche, 75, German car designer of both flashy racers for collectors and Hitler's cheap, beetle-shaped Volkswagen; of a stroke; in Stuttgart...