Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year post-honeymoon "health tour" of Europe. "My father was injured in a bizarre accident just before his marriage," Doug Dillon explains. "He was at a railroad station in a small resort outside Milwaukee when an express went by the station at full speed. A Saint Bernard had wandered onto the tracks; the train hit him and threw him into the crowd. The dog's body knocked my father against a pillar, breaking his skull. He was unconscious for a week...
...such an opportunity as John Kennedy to break the patronage practice that equates judges with postmasters. Kennedy now has the power to name 106 new federal judges, more than one-fourth of all the judges in an expanded federal system. Said the A.B.A.'s federal judiciary committee chairman, Bernard Segal: "The quality of justice which will be administered in our courts during the generation ahead will be determined to a large extent by the kind of judicial appointments President Kennedy makes. Politics should not bar a lawyer from appointment." So far, President Kennedy has sent through only 21 names...
...George Bernard Shaw's splendid custom of appending argumentative prefaces to his plays-and, in a few instances, of dangling a play from an especially grand preface-has been taken up by John O'Hara, who between novels and short stories has had a largely unrequited hankering for the theater. True, O'Hara has written only one preface for five plays, but that one rings with large-spirited ill will. Some of his plays, says the author, might have reached Broadway "if I had been willing to take writing lessons from directors, but I know...
...version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers & Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady, by George Lerner and Bernard Loewe...
...Angeles, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard F. Libby proudly displayed his "poor man's shelter." Dug out of a hillside, it is protected with railroad ties and bags of dirt, is adequate for a 48-hour stay, cost all of $30. In Malibu, Missile Scientist and Electronics Manufacturer Bernard Benson, his wife and seven children had a $15,000 shelter built to withstand any bomb damage but a direct hit. Along with food and water, Benson has stocked his hideout with beer and a 1925 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A nuclear attack, says he, will set civilization back...