A 1947 article in the New York Folklore Quarterly recorded the classic shaggy dog story "' Murgatroyd the Kluge Maker ' then current in the Armed Forces, in which a ' kluge ' was a complex and puzzling artifact with a trivial function.

Second, the " Kluge paper feeder " was an automatic paper feeder for printing presses, which was first manufactured by Brandtjen and Kluge in 1919.

Steinway has acquired some of its suppliers in order to maintain high quality: the German manufacturer Kluge in Wuppertal, which supplies the keyboards, was bought in December 1998 ; in November 1999, Steinway purchased the company which supplies its cast iron plates, O. S.

In the west operations were further split between the OKW and Oberbefehlshaber West ( OBW, Commander in Chief West ), who was Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt ( succeeded by Field Marshal Günther von Kluge ).

The German command in the west was reorganised following the suicide of Kluge, the arrest of Stülpnagel and the incapacitation of Rommel.

He was relieved of his command on 25 December 1941 after Feldmarschall Günther von Kluge, not noted for his ability to face up to Hitler, claimed that Guderian had ordered a withdrawal in contradiction of Hitler's " stand fast " order.

Guderian's own view on the matter was that he had been victimized by von Kluge who was the commanding officer when German troops came to a standstill at the Moscow front in late autumn / winter 1941.

It was written, animated and directed by a group of Czech cartoonists including Jiří Brdečka, Jaroslav Kándl, Eduard Hofman, Břetislav Pojar, Václav Bedřich, Stanislav Látal, Jaroslav Doubrava and Josef Kluge in German-occupied Prague in AFIT studios.

Metromedia was owned by John Kluge, a billionaire reputed to be the richest man in America, and an old friend of Krim.

Soon Kluge was engaged in a full-scale bidding war with Orion's other major stockholder, Sumner Redstone of National Amusement Corporation.

Holding nearly 67 percent of Orion, Kluge became the owner of what was, in effect, a private company.

Despite these two bright spots, the bulk of Orion's offerings fared poorly, and Kluge, who had kept the studio afloat through periodic injections of cash, announced that his stake in the company was up for sale.

John Werner Kluge ( September 21, 1914 – September 7, 2010 ) was a German-born American entrepreneur who was at one time the richest person in America.

Kluge was born in Chemnitz, Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1922.

In the early 1960s, Kluge bought an outdoor advertising firm, and in 1961 the company's name was changed to Metromedia to reflect the diversity of its interests.

Kluge was married four times.

1999 saw a competition between Wood Gundy ( now CIBC World Markets ) chief John S. Hunkin and Personal / Commercial banking head Holger Kluge, with Kluge retiring the firm after Hunkin was selected.

Army Group North was composed of General Georg von Küchler ′ s 3rd Army, and General Günther von Kluge ′ s 4th Army.

On May 6, 1985, Kluge announced the sale of Metromedia's television stations, and Metromedia Producers Corp., to the News Corporation ( owned by Australian newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch ) and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation ( owned jointly by Murdoch and Marvin Davis ) for $ 3. 5 billion.

Working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of ' small ' motion pictures that caught the attention of art house audiences, and enabled these directors ( particularly Wenders and Schlöndorff ) into better-financed productions which were backed by the big US studios.

" In April 1991, Kluge, who still owned the bulk of the company, removed Orion's two top executives, including his friend Arthur B. Krim, and appointed younger executives from within the company to try to turn the studio around.

The artistically ambitious and socially critical films of the New German Cinema strove to delineate themselves from what had gone before and the works of auteur film-makers such as Kluge and Fassbinder are examples of this, although Fassbinder in his use of stars from German cinema history also sought a reconciliation between the new cinema and the old.

His works Der Mond ( The Moon, 1939 ) and Die Kluge ( The Wise Woman, 1943 ), for example, he referred to as " Märchenoper " (" fairytale operas ").

The artistically ambitious and socially critical films of the New German Cinema strove to delineate themselves from what had gone before and the works of auteur film-makers such as Kluge and Fassbinder are examples of this, although Fassbinder in his use of stars from German cinema history also sought a reconciliation between the new cinema and the old.

* Die Letzte Droge ( 2006 ), directed by Stefan Kluge.

In 1919, the brothers invented an automatic feeder for printing presses which, by 1929, allowed Brandtjen & Kluge to move into a 3-story building in St. Paul, MN.

The film begins with Schleyer's wake, a segment filmed by Alexander Kluge and Volker Schlöndorff, and it ends with the tumultuous funeral of the dead terrorist at Stammehim prison.

A large number of senior officers were directly or indirectly implicated, headed by Field Marshals Kluge, Rommel ( very peripherally ) and Witzleben, and Generals Falkenhausen, Erich Fellgiebel, Friedrich Fromm, Paul von Hase, Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg, Otto Herfurth, Erich Hoepner, Fritz Lindemann, Friedrich von Rabenau, Hans Speidel, Helmuth Stieff, Stülpnagel, Fritz Thiele, Georg Thomas and Eduard Wagner, as well as Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.

Kluge responded by proposing to raise his stake to 57 percent.

In 1986, Kluge sold the Metromedia television stations to the 20th Century Fox film studio, which is now controlled by the News Corporation, for a reported USD $ 4 billion.

In retaliation for a lawsuit brought by Paul Winchell, who sought the rights to his children's television program, " Winchell-Mahoney Time ", Metromedia management, under orders from Kluge, destroyed the video tapes.

On July 18, Lee and his team parachuted into Orléans ; they found that Rommel had been severely injured the previous day after his staff car had been overturned in an attack by RAF Hawker Typhoons and replaced by Günther von Kluge.

Kluge also sold Metromedia's outdoor advertising firm, the Harlem Globetrotters, and the Ice Capades in that same year, and spun off the radio stations into a separate company ( which ironically took on the Metropolitan Broadcasting name ) before they were sold to various other owners by the early 1990s.

The Metromedia name has lived on in other projects by Kluge such as the Metromedia Restaurant Group, though the ventures have been largely unrelated to television.

Reinforcements were moved west by Field Marshal Günther von Kluge and employed in various counterattacks, the largest of which ( codenamed Operation Lüttich ) was launched on 7 August between Mortain and Avranches.

This work was honored by James Farris and Arnold Kluge in their later appellation of related algorithms as " Wagner parsimony.

In November 1942, Goerdeler made a secret and illegal visit to Smolensk using forged papers provided by Colonel Hans Oster to meet Field Marshal Günther von Kluge and Henning von Tresckow to gain their support for overthrowing Hitler.

Germany in Autumn ( Deutschland im Herbst ) is an omnibus film, a collective work of eight German filmmaker including Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Volker Schlöndorff, Bernhard Sinkel and Alexander Kluge, the main organizer behind the project.

Schlöndorff then contributed to the omnibus film Germany in Autumn, in which nine German filmmakers ( including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz and author Heinrich Böll ) made short films depicting the hysteria and political chaos in west Germany the German Autumn of 1977.

He also sang in a number of roles with the Vienna State Opera and the San Francisco Opera during these years, including the title role in Carl Orff's Die Kluge, Amonasro, Fritz Kothner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tonio, and Wolfram in Tannhäuser.

The Kluge Center will welcome and accommodate other distinguished Chairs in the Library of Congress, including three that have already been established:

Gauthier, Kluge and Rowe ( 1988 ) defined Anthracosauria as a clade including " Amniota plus all other tetrapods that are more closely related to amniotes than they are to amphibians " ( Amphibia in turn was defined by these authors as a clade including Lissamphibia and those tetrapods that are more closely related to lissamphibians than they are to amniotes ).