Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported by Bernard Baumohl/New York and Gisela Bolte/Washington
...George Bernard Shaw, the world's greatest living literary figure, turned 90, and had a high old time of it. All day long a procession of literary pilgrims plodded through his Ayot St. Lawrence home near London. Some birthday shafts...
...diaries, memoirs and postwar interviews, Eisenhower was not entirely candid about the war. He blandly insisted that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had been a pleasure to work with; Ambrose describes Eisenhower as perpetually furious at the British leader's surliness and reluctance to go on the offensive. For years Ike claimed that he had been hostile to the Soviets from the first; his biographer depicts him as so eager to prove American good faith at war's end that he never challenged the idea of Soviet troops in Germany...
...military investigators concluded that MacDonald had murdered his own family and to cover up had aped the Manson gang's recent grisly slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and some of her friends. At a pre-court-martial hearing half a year later, MacDonald's hustling lawyer, Bernard Segal of Philadelphia, shredded the Army's circumstantial hypothesis and the doctor was set free...
...portraiture of those Irish men and women who are, as James Joyce put it, "outcast from life's feast": desperate spinsters, failed priests, drunken poets-and expatriates, like Moore himself. But as the distance between Moore and his homeland widened, he produced, under the pseudonyms Michael Bryan and Bernard Marrow, some lamentable whodunits. By way of apology he once explained: "I tried to write as an American...