Word: ardente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politically, Pastor Niemöller has always been an ardent nationalist, in favor of a strong, united Germany. In recent months, he has been preaching a brand of religion that some Christians have found puzzling. One of his speeches, condensed in last week's Christian Century, is based on the proposition that modern war is something no Christian should support. The church, he says, should proclaim the words of Jesus, "He that would save his life shall lose it," instead of "remaining silent when the tempters try to bait poor human victims for their bloody business by suggesting that...
Help from the King. Completely state-financed and controlled, the Royal Ballet has also had a little artistic help from 51-year-old King Frederik IX, an ardent and accomplished musician. Solo Dancer Ralov in particular could thank him for one of his successes. When Ralov first danced the role of Gennaro in Auguste Bournonville's Napoli, Frederik, then Crown Prince, came backstage and asked him if he would like some pointers. Frederik had seen Hans Beck, a famed Danish dancer, the role years before, and had spent hours in a practice room with Ralov, coaching him on what...
Kate Louise Mitchell, 36, graduate of Bryn Mawr, an ardent Communist party-liner and Jaffe's co-editor; Emmanuel Sigurd Larsen, 47, State Department expert on Far East affairs who had spent most of his adult life in Asia; Navy Reserve Lieut. Andrew Roth, 26, before the war Jaffe's assistant, who, despite a report pointing at him as a fellow traveler, was working in the Office of Naval Intelligence...
...vast expanse of his fatherland, no more ardent or versatile Peronista ever breathed than Oscar Ivanisse-vich, 45, onetime Argentine Ambassador to the U.S. As a surgeon he had removed the appendixes of both President and Señora Perón. As a poet he had composed the official party march, Peronista Boys. As Minister of Education, he distributed to his schoolchildren a saccharine pamphlet on Evita, "The Good Fairy of Argentina." Every morning on entering his office he bowed low to his patrons' pictures on the wall...
Died. General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, 70, grandson and namesake of Italy's famed, red-shirted Liberator, onetime ardent antiFascist, author (A Toast to Rebellion); in Rome. A soldier in six wars, Garibaldi, at 23, led 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, later became Francisco Madero's chief of staff in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11, organized an Italian Legion to fight for France in World War I. At first violently opposed to the Black Shirts, he eventually shifted his allegiance to Mussolini during the Ethiopian campaign but was put into jail by the Nazis during...