Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joanovici, in the classic fashion of those who reinsure, did not neglect the other side: he contributed heavily to the French resistance, claims to have saved thousands of Jews from deportation. Resistance Leader Albert Bayet testified that "Joanovici supplied us with arms without which the 1944 Paris uprising could not have occurred." In the confusion of the liberation of France, Joseph even got a "certificate of honor" as a "resistance fighter without uniform," from the hands of Robert Lecourt, who became France's Minister of Justice. Police agents sent to investigate Joanovici later turned up as officers...
...time winner in the poll), this year as well as last, were Queen Elizabeth and Clare Boothe Luce. In fourth place: Mamie Eisenhower, sixth in popularity last year. For the seventh time, the pollees ranked President Eisenhower as the most admired living man, trailed by Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Evangelist Billy Graham and Harry Truman, who slipped from last year's third spot. Newcomers to this year's list: Vice President Nixon and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
...Indians in the state of Paraná. They saw none of them, and the steep, jungle-tangled Serra dos Dourados mountains in the western part of the state deflected both settlers, missionaries and slave hunters. Nothing more was reported about the primitives until 1906, when a Czech scientist named Albert Fritsch made a field trip into the region and met some comparatively advanced Indians dragging three captives who spoke an unknown tongue. He discovered that the captives called themselves Xetsá (pronounced shee-tahss). He studied their language superficially and then apparently dismissed them as a branch of the well...
...cousin, then Lord Louis Mountbatten, suggested soothingly that there was no more fitting preparation for the throne than British naval training. Cousin Dickie was right. Albert Frederick Arthur George had been virtually ignored by everyone, from his mother, Queen Mary, to his nurse; but his service in the Royal Navy (where he was known as "Johnson") helped to set him up for the onerous business of living in the shadow of his brother's personality. Far from having David's "youthful charm and buoyancy," George was "shy and hesitant" and had a severe stammer. All Bertie...
...about $60,000 before he was brought to trial on 20-odd charges of forgery of names and labels. The top violin traders in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York, who have for years passed on the authenticity of old violins, almost unanimously supported Werro. Seventy-year-old Albert Phillips-Hill of London's sacrosanct W.E. Hill & Sons, and himself known in the trade as "The Pope," called the work of Iviglia's bureau a "scandal...