Trade tensions between the U.S. and China are unlikely to ease soon despite a recent thaw on tariffs, according to Gene Sperling of Pacific Investment Management Co., who warns market volatility ...

A 1959 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein and 1965 movie, “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Capt. Georg von Trapp, were somewhat ...

George M. Von Drashek II, 82, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; retired educator from District 832 and 622, died June 5, 2012.

In the Broadway musical, Captain Georg von Trapp sings the ballad with his family as a goodbye to his beloved homeland, amid the destruction of the Second World War. Contrastingly in 1965 film ...

While Georg, Maria and the von Trapp kids had been making music all their lives, they didn’t officially start performing until 1934, when they entertained an opera singer named Lotte Lehmann ...

However, the film took many liberties in its story, including altering the timeline of events (the movie is set in the late 1930s even though the real Georg and Maria wed a decade earlier) and how the ...

Maria and the von Trapp family were actually real people, and they really did escape Austria as the Nazi Party rose to power. They also settled in Vermont and established a lodge, according to the ...

The eldest child of Baron Georg von Trapp, Rupert von Trapp toured Europe and later America alongside his father, stepmother Maria and siblings as the Trapp Family Singers until 1943, when the ...

Deacon Von Thomas George, 62, passed away on September 5, 2024 in Allentown, PA after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Von led a life of service, dedication, and faith. He was born on ...

In home hospice with pancreatic cancer, Von George became the first priest or deacon in the Allentown diocese’s 63-year history to be ordained with a serious medical condition.

Peter Phillips and new girlfriend Harriet Sperling packed on the PDA at the Gloucestershire Festival of Polo at the Beaufort Club in Tetbury, as they were joined by Peter's daughters, Savannah and ...