Word: hermann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans were recently arrested in the Soviet zone of Germany after movie theater audiences had guffawed at (1) a film purporting to show Soviet ships unloading food for Germany; (2) newsreel pictures of barrel-bellied Wilhelm Pieck, German Communist boss, who reminds many of his compatriots of the late Hermann Goring. But whether laughter was the privilege of the free or the furtive solace of the oppressed, it continued as always to lighten man's burden...
...Hugh P. Hermann of Adams House and Brooklyn: Adams House Committee; freshman 150-pound crew...
Died. Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, 67, onetime commander in chief of the German army (1938-41); of coronary thrombosis; in Hamburg, Germany, where he awaited trial as a war criminal. Son of a Prussian cavalry general, Brauchitsch increased the Wehrmacht's motorized divisions from two to six, occupied the Sudetenland, led the 18-day blitz of Poland, took Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece...
...pretty tense and exciting, according to Hermann, to take off on rides amidst poker games and fire whistles. The firemen's polo is located in the middle of the sax section and the practices are broken once or twice nightly by the whine of the emergency whistle and the tumbling of drivers and hosemen down the hole and out to their engines...
...Harvardians use stock band arrangements. Johnny Green, one time Benny Goodman arranger, has made several specials for the band and Hermann has distributed songs among undergraduate composers for arrangement contributions. But at this early date the orchestra relies mostly on proven compositions...