Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Nelson Eddy, 65, romantic baritone, whose golden tones and handsome blond looks blended so perfectly with Jeanette MacDonald's clear soprano and redheaded beauty that they became Hollywood's most celebrated pair in the late 1930s and '40s, singing their way through scores of love duets (Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Indian Love Call, Will You Remember) and eight hit musicals from Naughty Marietta to I Married an Angel, films that won them such everlasting fans that Eddy could count on a packed house of appreciative middle-aged folk whenever he appeared on the nightclub circuit...
...amazing that in 1967 some white men and women are still trying to persuade black Africans to abandon their religious beliefs and worship instead a blond and blue-eyed Jesus-the same Jesus whom the Ku Klux Klan and other racists in the U.S. and Britain and the apartheid white minorities of South Africa and Rhodesia worship; the same Jesus in whose name Jews have been persecuted in the West for ten centuries and 6,000,000 Jews were gassed in Germany only 25 years ago. For more than three centuries, Christianity has ministered to the American Negro...
...college coaching profession is not noted as a haven of security, but if anybody seemed safe in his job it was Pete Elliott, the University of Illinois' football coach since 1960. Blond, still boyish at 41, a graduate of the University of Michigan where he was the only twelve-letter man in the school's history, Elliott survived his share of losing seasons, took his team to the Rose Bowl in 1964, was so highly thought of as an administrator that both Illinois and Northwestern offered him the post of athletic director...
...love of overstuffed furniture (one possible source of inspiration: late night replays on TV of the '30s movies) and the bright chrome chairs, tables and settees initiated by such Bauhaus architect-designers as Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe; there was even a revival of the laminated blond wood chairs made popular by Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto in the 1940s. What made the trend significant is that such furniture comes not from the avantgarde, relatively low-volume makers such as Knoll Associates and Herman Miller, but from mass manufacturers...
...molded plywood chair and matching otto man (Directional Industries, $280) instantly recall Aalto, for example, but the sausage-shaped arms and headrest owe more to Le Corbusier. Hans Eichenberger's tubular framed sofa (Sten-dig, $1,000) is a relatively straightforward, clean-lined exercise in the Miesian idiom. Blond wood was back in Edward Wormley's new line for Dunbar, which features ash in everything from storage carts that open up for dining ($560) to toadstool-shaped tables ($248) and benches...