Word: bern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should like to reply to the letter of Mr. Bern Dibner in the Oct. 27 issue. If he believes that the best way to destroy Communism is to keep it under cover, then I believe that he is thinking dangerously. The mere fact that TIME features men like Gromyko and Vishinsky on its covers should be the first step in a great deal of publicity for Communism. For if we are to fight those "who are pledged to destroy us," we will have to do it in the open. The naivete of the American public lies not in our publicity...
...BERN DIBNER New York City Fiat...
Professional artists have sometimes met that challenge by reducing realism to photographic limits; amateurs have generally chosen an easier way out, painting unconsciously formalized, decorative interpretations of their subjects. Both methods are discussed, and well illustrated with 134 examples, in a first-rate history published this week: Wolfgang Bern's Still-Life Painting in America (Oxford...
...Jungfrau's peak gleamed in the distance; the River Aare rushed through Bern beneath the hotel window. The mild, wistful-eyed man who had tried to get along with everybody (including the Communists) had with him his timid little wife and his beautiful young daughter, Juliette. But Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge) was uneasy: he was not enjoying his Swiss vacation from his duties as Premier of Hungary...
...exile. Nagy went around to the Hungarian legation and announced that he would resign as Premier as soon as Laszlo arrived. Then he went back to the hotel, disconnected his phone and went to bed. Said a fellow countryman: "I'll bet Nagy was the only Hungarian in Bern who slept that night...