Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first feast of signatures was spread on a yellow-tapestried table in the Gobelin Hall of old Belvedere Palace, Vienna. In these halls once roared the voice of Eugen of Savoy, one of the Habsburgs' greatest warriors. Here strode Archduke Franz Ferdinand before Sarajevo. Here whispered poor Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria. Here also the architects of the New Order redrew the designs of Czecho-Slovakia (Nov. 2, 1938) and Rumania...
Founded last year by Kurt Vogt '40, the Council is designed to be an informal discussion group with prominent business men concerning problems of government economic policies and their connection with business...
Arriving in Canada, Hans Rott, onetime Austrian Secretary of State for Labor, mentioned the half-forgotten name of a politician who once tried to double-cross Hitler at his own game: Kurt von Schuschnigg. In a heatless, lightless cell on the top floor of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna's dingy Metropol Hotel. Austria's last Chancellor, doomed to slow death, is almost blind, according to Rott, as a result of Gestapo torture...
...Joseph Usifer), plays clarinet and saxophone-his occasional saxophone work with the NBC Symphony has earned Toscanini's bravos-and leads the ten wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included Pianists "Jelly Roll" Morton, Alec Templeton and Joe Sullivan, Blues Composer W. C. Handy, Violinist Kurt Polnarioff of the Pittsburgh Symphony (with his hair down), Conductor Frank Black (with a hot harpsichord). Official singer is pretty, sultry-voiced Dinah Shore, 23, who was born Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn., changed her name because of puns. When old Composer Handy heard Dinah Shore send...
Other, visiting scholars will include Josef Albers, Instructor in Design at Black mountain College, who will be Visiting Lecturer in Design; John F. Callahan, Instructor in Classics and Philosophy, Loyola University, in Greek and Latin; Dr. Kurt Goldstein, Clinical Professor of Neurology Columbia University, in psychology; Friedrich C. Sell, formerly Professor at the Paedagogische Akademic, Kassel, Germany, in German literature; Hans Stachle, formerly of the International Labor Office, Goneva, in economics; and Professor Oscar Zariski, of Johns Hopkins University, outstanding algebraic geometrist, in mathematics...