Word: wilhelm
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...Wilhelm von HohenzoIIern, 21 years ago a beaten warlord and exiled Kaiser, today a grumpy old man on a cane, passed his 81st birthday last week quietly at Doom in The Netherlands. Nazi Germany took no official notice of the anniversary. Instead it turned back 228 years and celebrated the birth of Wilhelm II's great-great-granduncle, Frederick II. An intellectual, artistic youth whose stern father had to smack him around for years to make a man of him, Frederick II built up Prussia into a first-class European power. He became "the Great" by daring to take...
...retired, 100, veteran of the Civil War, Sioux Indian campaigns, keen student of World War II, who received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart and from President Roosevelt a letter of felicitation; William Libbey Sexton, oldest living alumnus of Princeton University, 95; Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime Kaiser of Germany. 81; James Clark McReynolds, senior Supreme Court Justice, 78; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President...
...Boston, Second Officer Wilhelm Harren of the German tanker Pauline Friederich, which took refuge there four months ago carrying $250,000 worth of lubricants, last week filed a libel action in Federal court, demanding that the vessel be sold to satisfy his claim of $98.60 in back wages, and more for the hungry crew. Wilhelm Harren of Hamburg announced he was through with the Nazi regime. His spokesman: Boston Attorney Hyman Katz...
...surprisingly, in his book, Quiz Champion Levant slips on many a fact. Sample boners: that Leopold Stokowski taught the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to play Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps in 1930 (famed German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler had done it five years before); that Harpo Marx tunes his harp backwards (Harpo's tuning, though unorthodox, is not backwards); that Toscanini cannot see the men in his orchestra (Toscanini, farsighted, can see quite well beyond six feet...
...apparently cued North German Lloyd's 32, 581-ton Columbus, third biggest of the Nazi merchant marine - tied up at Veracruz since debarking her passengers at Havana in September - to make a dash for it. When he received the order to sail home, Columbus' Captain Wilhelm Daehne had no choice but to obey, though he knew his chance of getting through was paper-thin. For weeks he trained two picked squads in the fine art of scuttling and firing ship...