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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even during her childhood days in Ulm, Germany, Annemarie Huste demonstrated that she was to the skillet born. By the time she was 20, she had served in half a dozen European kitchens, worked her way to New York, and before she knew it, had been taken on by Billy Rose as housekeeper-cook at $250 a week. "She had very little in the way of references," says the agent who sent her, "but she was very pretty and I thought he'd give her a chance. He told me she was a very good cook...
Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian-born naturalist, believes that human aggressiveness is the instinct that powers not only self-preservation against enemies but also love and friendship for those who share the struggle. Overcoming obstacles provides selfesteem; lacking such fulfillment, man turns against handy targets-his wife, even himself. Polar explorers, deprived of quarrels with strangers, often start to hate one another; the antidote is smashing some inanimate object, like crockery. Accident-prone drivers may be victims of "displaced aggression." The once ferocious Ute Indians, now shorn of war outlets, have the worst auto-accident rate on record...
Married. Vittorio De Sica, 65, cinema's high priest of neorealism (The Bicycle Thief; Two Women); and Maria Mercader, 51, Spanish-born actress, his constant companion for 20 years; in Fains, France. To evade his country's no-divorce laws, the Italian director became a French citizen in 1966, was later granted a divorce from his first wife, Giuditta Rissone...
Divorced. Gina Lollobrigida, 40, Italy's ever beautiful, always busy (Hotel Paradiso) movie queen; and Milko Skofic, 48, the Yugoslav-born physician she married 19 years ago; by mutual consent after a legal separation of 18 months; in Vienna. Since La Lollo retains Italian citizenship, she is still Signora Skofic back home...
...this 1939 novel is a fortyish exile returned from Palestine after World War I to the East European town of his youth. Moving into a small hotel, the wanderer becomes "that man who was a guest for the night and stayed for many nights." Agnon himself was born in the Galicia region of Austro-Hungarian Poland, went to Palestine as a very young man, then back to Europe during World War I before returning to his adopted homeland. Obvious elements of disenchanted autobiography are present in the words that another character speaks to the guest: "When a man sees that...