Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was found shot dead in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling. Beside him, and apparently the second member of a suicide pact, lay the body of the young Countess Maria Vetsera. Their deaths were the culmination of a hopeless love affair--hopeless because Rudolph had been married long before he ever met Maria. Such a story is the stuff of which fairy tales, or even tragedy, is made, but it certainly did not provide the material for a successful television show...
Bribes & Phone Calls. With all this emphasis on brains and balance, the competition to get into college sometimes becomes a desperate affair. Dean Robert Pitt of the University of Pennsylvania says that in one year he received phone calls or letters from ten governors, as many Congressmen, and a host of board chairmen, all interested in pushing candidates. He has also been offered bribes ("O.K., how much do you want?" demanded one father as he whipped out his checkbook), has seen another father offer the university $3,000 if only it would take his son in. In Washington...
...Secret Affair (Warner) is a comedy of bad manners. They are largely exercised by a newsmagazine tycoon (Susan Hayward), aided by her editor (Paul Stewart), upon a famed combat general (Kirk Douglas). The general believes that there are only two kinds of women: mothers and the others. The female tycoon believes that there are only two kinds of men, "and I can handle both." Each, by profession, is determined to have his own way. When she decides to do a cover story on him, exposing him as a blabbermouth and general incompetent, the stage appears...
...even the language was under attack. Conrad left Poland at 16. At Marseilles, he became a bit of a heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over that lady's honor. For no better reason than that he liked the cut of an English jib, Conrad took off for life with the British...
Even the CRIMSON was not free from administrative oppression. President Jordan of the Annex ruled that students could no longer compete in the CRIMSON-sponsored "Miss Radcliffe Contest," because the affair was "inconsistent with Radcliffe's pirde in the indivdualty and diversity of its students...