Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* In a modernized parody of those Pearl White cliffhangers of the early 1900s, Mrs. Emma Peel and John Steed set out to investigate a snag in Britain's early-warning radar system, and Mrs. Peel ends up tied to a railroad track-all to the accompaniment of a tinkling old piano...
Died. Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff, 89, bizarre German psychiatrist, famed throughout Europe in the early 1900s for her free-swinging approach to sex in such books as Erotic Rebirth, who later turned strident nationalist, blaming Germany's World War I defeat on Masons, Jesuits and, most particularly, Jews, and toured the country in flowing robes embroidered with Nordic symbols, preaching hate and accusing Hitler of being too far left; after pneumonia; in Tutzing, Germany...
Died. Mari Susette Sandoz, 68, folklorist of the U.S. Great Plains; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though she lived and wrote in Greenwich Village for the past 20 years, Mari Sandoz knew much of the Plains firsthand, as a Nebraska sod-buster's daughter in the 1900s who had "seen the settler-cattlemen fights" and been wounded twice herself. In later years, she was forever "tearing around on horseback and climbing the Pecos," digging behind legends of Indian wars, gamblers and lawmen for the tales she wove into a score of chronicles (Old Jules, Slogum House) whose gritty realism never...
Rickey not only changed the strategy of baseball management; he helped change the very tone of the game. In the early 1900s baseball was dominated by rowdies and gamblers. Rickey, a strict Methodist who never drank or swore (his strongest epithet was "Judas Priest!") and refused all his life to attend ball games on Sunday, gave respectability to the sport. He lectured his players endlessly on strength of character and nobility of purpose. "Luck," he liked to tell them, "is the residue of design." He popularized "the Knothole Gang" and Ladies' Day-designed to attract a proper citizenry...
Died. Dame Myra Hess, 75, British concert pianist, who passed unnoticed when she made her debut amid the flamboyant virtuosos of the early 1900s, but later established herself as one of the leading musicians of her day, bringing graceful proportion and artistry to the works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, during World War II earned the admiration of blitz-weary Londoners and the Order of Dame Commander for inaugurating a six-year series of noontime concerts in the National Gallery; of a heart attack; in London...