Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Jean Seberg, 19, cornfed cinemactress who at 17 was chosen for movie stardom as Joan of Arc in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan; and Francois Moreuil, 24, Harvard-trained French lawyer; in Marshalltown, Iowa...
Smuggler. At Little St. Bernard Pass on the French-Italian frontier, a French priest was refused permission to take 50 bananas into Italy (where the importation of fruit is controlled by a state monopoly), sat in his car and ate 47 of them before giving up, handing the rest to gaping onlookers...
...wood-paneled London office near Covent Garden's clamorous produce market, A. B. (for Arthur Bernard) Clements, 60, editor of the Sporting Life, sat down one morning last week to flip through his mail. As usual, it contained requests for him to arbitrate disputes between British horse-race bettors and their bookies. As usual, Clements prepared a judicious answer to each query...
Wearing new holes in his shoes, Adlai Stevenson marched west across Europe, stopped to lunch with 93-year-old Art Historian Bernard Berenson at a villa some 20 miles from Florence. In coffee-time seclusion the avowed future candidate for nothing and the acknowledged past master of art criticism swapped ideas on such world problems as U.S. v. Soviet education, American politics, Russia's practical advantage over the U.S. in not being bound to moral and political standards. "We must create respect for excellence," said Stevenson. Berenson agreed, suggested the stirring rallying cry: "Intellectuals of the world, unite...
...making top-of-his-head problems. Museum Hair Specialist Vera Bland not only had trouble getting Nkrumah-like hair ("It is in very short commercial supply"), but paled at the prospect of putting it on the wax head at 1,000 hairs per sq. in. But at least, said Bernard Tussaud, boss of the firm, "he hasn't any bumps on his head at all. He seems a good-tempered, benevolent kind...