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Word: alix (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking up the address of Baroness Alix de Rothschild in the Paris phone directory, Construction Worker Josef Stadnik proceeded to her duplex apartment, where he confronted her son, David, 27, with a pistol. Demanding 2,000,000 francs ($360,000) to spare David's life, the nervous gunman forced the young heir to call his father, Rothschild Bank President Baron Guy de Rothschild, for the ransom. No sooner said than done. "In a situation like mine, you know, with all the contacts you have, it is not hard to find a big sum," David later explained. When Baron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...Boar's-Head Tavern, Mistress Quickly (Jan Miner), in an orange and yellow-green costume, sports an appropriately fiery head of red hair, but is otherwise forgettable. The tart-tongued tart Doll Tearsheet (Alix Elias), dark-haired and rouge-cheeked, has only her low neckline to recommend her; the monotonous and whining voice with which she delivers all her lines is painful beyond belief...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Stratford Shakespeare Festival | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

...leisure, Gross enjoys the quietude of his $300,000, six-acre estate high in the Santa Monica Mountains, where his wife, the former Mrs. Alix Van Rensselaer Devereux Wanamaker, often joins him at his hobby, gardening. At work amid the thunder of aircraft at Lockheed Air Terminal, Gross operates out of a resolutely old-shoe office, with bare green walls, a few wooden and leather-covered chairs reminiscent of his Harvard undergraduate days, and a rolltop desk. One visible vanity: a different pair of Ben Franklin spectacles with frames to match each day's fastidious London suit and breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerospace: No End in Sight | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Minnie's achievements are celebrated in a new book by her daughter, Sophie Guggenheimer Untermeyer, and Pressagent Alix Williamson, titled Mother Is Minnie (Doubleday; $3.95). The book does little to explain what it is that equips Minnie Guggenheimer to raise some $100,000 for Lewisohn each year, but it demonstrates unmistakably why she has become as celebrated a figure at the stadium as most of the soloists who have appeared there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hello, Minnie | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

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