Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such science fiction is not based wholly on imagination. If Captain Dart gets to the Whirlpool Galaxy while he is still young enough to make a safe blast-down on some hospitable planet, he will thank, in part, Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity...
...arriving, the Aga Khan would give Head Porter Chasper $10,000 to be handed out when the Aga Khan needed pocket money; the hotel would provide the Aga Khan (an Ismaili Moslem) with a compass, so he could determine the proper direction to face while praying. Once King Albert I of the Belgians, a hotel guest, greeted Host Badrutt: "You are King of St. Moritz. I am King of the Belgians. I greet you as a colleague...
...Generation. World War II cut the supply of rich vacationers, forced the Badrutts to tighten up; the Kulm was sold to Swiss Businessman Albert Ernst. But the Palace is still run by Hans's widow Helen, and two sons, Andrea and Hansjurg, and a new generation scrawls its names across the guest book: Henry Ford II, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Hutton. For its 400 guests the Palace maintains a staff of 300, including 40 cooks, who daily turn out half a ton of fancy meats and 1,000 pastries. The wine cellar is stocked with 60,000 fine bottles...
...also vice-president of Albert Frank-Guenther Law, Inc., a national advertising agency. He became head of its Boston office in 1929, and remained associated with the agency until his death...
Last year's lectures were devoted to Woodrow Wilson's career as a political and world leader. Past lecturers include Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, John Foster Dulles, Henry L. Stimson, Thomas E. Dewey, and George F. Kennan...