Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...71st birthday, the Soviet press did its usual dutiful job of singing the praises of Joseph Stalin. He was, the papers said, "The Greatest Scientist of Our Time." At least one highway and still another city were renamed in his honor. On the practical side, an East German steelworks dedicated a new oven to him. There was also the not-so-admiring group in West Germany which sent a little gift: a wreath of barbed wire...
...first. It was originally a French play called Le Réveillon (The Awakening), written by sometime Offenbach librettists Henry Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy in 1872, and based on a Berlin comedy of 1851. Strauss set a German adaptation to music two years later. Since then, it has been called, in various productions, A Wonderful Night, Fly-by-Night, The Merry Countess, Champagne Sec, etc., and, in the latest Broadway version (TIME, Nov. 9, 1942), Rosalinda...
...Franz Rosenzweig, a German Jew, decided to become a Christian. Before he could be taken into the Lutheran Church, he dropped in for the 1913 Yom Kippur services at a little Berlin synagogue. Nobody is certain what thoughts and feelings the services gave him, but by the time they were over, Rosenzweig had changed his mind, resolved to live his religious life as a Jew and "return to where I have been elected from birth...
Died. Walter Johannes Damrosch, 88, German-born music man who spent a full life as conductor, impresario and master of ceremonies bringing classical music to U.S. listeners, found time to do some composing of his own (The Man Without a Country); in Manhattan. During the '30s, his Friday-morning radio hour introduced the masters to millions of schoolchildren. "Realizing the joys that music can bring to men," he once said, "I have done my utmost to spread its gospel...
...taking a less active part in the company, and Strike was president. For his wartime job of building close to $175 million in war plants and bases, Engineer Strike became so well known that the War Depart ment sent him to Europe to supervise the rebuilding of German industry and the housing of some 4,000,000 homeless Germans. He did a bang-up job, and the Government sent him to Japan on a similar task. Later he became president of Overseas Consultants Inc., an eleven-firm, nonprofit combine which mapped out a $650 million development program for Iran (TIME...