Word: axel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Axel Wenner-Gren, 80, handsome, white-haired "Swedish sphinx" of international finance who amassed a personal fortune of more than $1 billion by dealing in everything from diet pills to antiaircraft guns, donated nearly $50 million to libraries and laboratories around the world, but never quite stilled the doubts aroused by his suspected dealings with the Nazis in World War II; of cancer; in Stockholm. A consummate salesman, Wenner-Gren worked in obscure jobs in Sweden and the U.S. till he was nearly 40, then proceeded to put together an industrial empire based on Electrolux vacuum cleaners and Servel...
Believing that "geniuses must have privacy, for they are the ones who make the world progress," retired Danish Industrialist Axel Faber, 66, has decided to establish 100 homes of "rest and seclusion for the cream of humanity." To date, he has sanctuaries available in Japan, France, England, Austria, Italy, Brazil and Mexico. One of them, a luxurious, palm-shaded home on Mexico's Acapulco Bay, has already been christened by greatness. Faber's first guest genius: honeymooning Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Donald Glaser, 34, and his 23-year-old bride...
Married. Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 30, King of the Belgians; and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, gentle daughter of Spain's Marqués of Casa Riera; both for the first time; in Brussels (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...cartoonist named Axel Rex emerges out of Margot's past, and his urbane chitchat somehow convinces Albinus that three is no crowd. Besides, Axel stills Albinus' qualms with a ploy at least as old as Restoration comedy: he confides to Albinus that he is really a homosexual. Soon clouds mass amid the comic lightning. After a series of tragic plot incidents, Albinus drives into a telephone pole, but lives on, blinded. What follows is more climactic and cruel than the book's actual ending. Axel silently shares the house and Margot, while the pair mulct the pitiable...
...Danish modern" is in a sense the climax of that tradition-a simple, sane and sanitary style suitable for all. The Met show has its full share of pleasing examples: the frugally lined furniture of Kaare Klint and Arne Jacobsen, the silver of Georg Jensen, bright-hued pottery by Axel Salto and Arnold Krog, and the toys of Kay Bojessen that combine beauty with humor. But despite the riches of the present, the fact remains that Denmark's most spectacular moments of majesty come from long...