Word: annas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Courts. By 1941, after a score of years in and out of hospitals and sanatoriums, Anna Anderson, as the purported Anastasia called herself, brought suit against the House of Hesse for her legacy. Interrupted by war and Russian occupation, the suit dragged on. In 1950 Anna herself, a fuzzy-minded, aging woman surrounded by a court of solicitous refugees, was living in an old army shack on the edge of the Black Forest, as a poverty-stricken pensioner of Prince Friedrich Ernst von Sachsen-Altenburg...
...sunny Italy, where the pastime of cheating revenooers is a national sport, three hot-eyed cinemactresses with bulging purses-Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren and Oscar-winning Anna Magnani-disrespectfully submitted their yearly earnings reports. Poor Gina claimed to have taken in $48,000, hard-pressed Sophia a mere $25,600, impoverished Anna a pathetic $5,600. After gallantly taking the ladies' gaunt figures as gospel, the revenooers, just for fun, totted up their own estimates: Gina, $130,000; Sophia, $97,000; Anna...
Laszlo's companions chose him to ask for help from the United Nations a few days before they themselves were forced by the Russian tanks to seek asylum in Austria. Although his companion, former minister Anna Kethly, was given a hearing at the U.N., Laszlo was not admitted...
Istvan Laszlo, who engaged in desperate street fighting as a youth leader in the county in which the University of Sopron is located, escaped from Hungary 12 days ago with Anna Kethly, Minister of State in the government of Imre Nagy. Laszlo has been in this country since...
...Soviet prison camps, joined the government because "we must establish national unity." The Smallholders' exiled leader Ferenc Nagy had come as far as the border, but had been turned back to Switzerland by the Austrians. Tough old Ferenc Farkas, onetime National Peasant Party leader, bobbed up. Social Democrat Anna Kethly, ailing as a result of long imprisonment in Russia, was on her way back (with a supply of newsprint) when her way was barred by Soviet tanks...