Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waterton, assigned to get undercover evidence against a fortunetelling gypsy, testified in court that the woman had cited two men, one fair, the other dark, as the cause of his own current unhappiness, admitted under defense questioning that he detested the assignment, given to him by fair-haired Detective Albert Steen, dark-haired Harry Horton...
...cocktail party was buzzing as only Chicago cocktail parties can buzz. In the richly appointed Lake Shore Drive apartment of Chicago Financier Albert Newman, the guests chatted animatedly, gazed at the original Picasso on the wall, and the Monet, the Jackson Pollock. On tables and shelves stood Peruvian fertility symbols, jade bracelets, sculptures that looked like the superstructure of a Japanese battleship. The heavy air clinked with philosophy, culture and sensitivity...
...income taxes, no military service) ruled by Rainier and his beautiful Princess Grace, nee Kelly? The majority of the National Council wanted constitutional reforms and limits placed on the Prince's power-he is the only absolutist monarch left in Europe. The Prince, "thinking of my son" (Prince Albert, aged eleven months), and invoking the memory of his Grimaldi great-grandfather, Prince Albert I, was determined not to lose a single prerogative. When the council, which has only advisory powers, put pressure on the Prince by refusing to approve his $6,000,000 1959 budget, Rainier acted...
France's Algiers-born Albert Camus (The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall) was a man of the theater long before he turned novelist. As a poor, radical student in 1934, he started Algeria's only theater, for which he wrote, acted, directed. To get experience, he used to play one-night stands all over North Africa, finally wrote three dramas between 1944 and 1949. Fellow actors remember him as pale, sickly, with "an extraordinary radiance." Last week the Camus radiance was back onstage, in one of the year's most exciting theatrical events: the opening in Paris...
Though the ads were pitched at the farmer's ego. Massey-Ferguson did not have far to look for the real prototype of the man it described: Massey President Albert A. Thornbrough, 46. When Kansas-born Al Thornbrough became the firm's executive vice president three years ago, the company was on the brink of bankruptcy. This week, by virtue of his aggressive policies, the company proved a remarkable comeback from 1957's losses of $4,700,000; it announced 1958 earnings that topped $13 million, or $1.25 a share. While sales in Europe, Africa, Australia, South...