Word: bernard
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Water Research Chief Bernard B. Berger is against foaming drinking water; see MEDICINE, Environment...
...conscious effort to search for new ideas-the birth of a sketch is usually accomplished with a simple remark, such as "You be a dentist. I'll be a patient"-they read miscellaneously. Nichols enjoys his subscription to Dog World, even though he has given up his Saint Bernard, reads Nancy Mitford and Mary McCarthy, never looks at Variety. Elaine is intermittently writing a play for herself and Nichols (with about six other parts) that is tentatively scheduled for Broadway next season...
...setting for his portrait of the Shah of Iran, TIME Cover Artist Bernard Safran copied a delicately elegant miniature by an unknown artist of the Safavid Dynasty period (1501-1734). Like most miniatures, this one was a book-size illustration for a Persian poet's verses. The lover is seen with his beloved in a pavilion in a flowering garden, where women attendants come with sweets and wine. A line of text runs around the edge: "My heart accepts the thorns of your garden...
...publishers commit non-books, but some do it more than others. One of the most persistent is Bernard Geis, who operates as a kind of non-publisher, distributing his wares through Bennett Cerf's Random House, and setting up shop to promote non-books, including those of backers Art Linkletter (The Secret World of Kids) and Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me). Says Geis: "I want to do anything that can be done to get the audience back to books." Then he adds, less piously: "I don't care what kind of book...
Died. Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, a favorite of George Bernard Shaw, A. A. Milne and Noel Coward, and a frequent leading lady in their plays, who was best known in the U.S. as the ghostly first wife in Blithe Spirit in 1941, was married only once (for four years to onetime NBC Vice President John F. Royal) though her "list of fiances," she often said, "included a majority of the peers listed in Debrett's"; of a heart attack; in Vleuten, The Netherlands...