Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, sported a scraggy white beard and a phony name. And, surprisingly, the nom de plumage lasted six weeks. Then last week the secret leaked out; the man back of the brush and calling himself Mr. George Saviers was Nobel Prizewinning Author Ernest Hemingway. After surviving war wounds, safari accidents and the assorted contusions of a life spent emulating the energetic characters in his own novels, Papa Hemingway, 61, had taken sick while on an Idaho hunting trip. Diagnosis: incipient diabetes complicated by high blood pressure...
Back in Brazil, he became enchanted with his native land. With a brush dipped in fantasy, he painted its tangled forests, soaring mountains and garish carnivals. In 1940 President Juscelino Kubitschek, who was then mayor of Belo Horizonte, set up an art school and made him a star instructor. But Guignard, bubbling over and chattering through his harelip, either drank up or gave away everything he made. He once traded a painting for a necktie, recently gave another for a pair of long-toed shoes. The transaction, he said, was "completely fair: they're like the shoes Charlie Chaplin...
...lifelong hobby of Birgitta's grandfather, Sweden's King Gustaf. Later, invited to Sweden for a royal elk hunt, the Prince succeeded in bagging more attractive quarry. In Stockholm, Birgitta's widowed mother, Princess Sibylla, announced the royal engagement last week. Johann Georg may want to brush up on his fencing; only four days before the betrothal, Birgitta won a Swedish national fencing crown...
...good to work with. He is the only Minister Adenauer allows to make major policy statements in the Bundestag without horning in to amplify or correct. Yet many people feel that they cannot trust Strauss. His hell-for-leather ways, his quick temper and his unmistakable relish for power brush many Germans, and others, the wrong way. "He is his own worst enemy," says an old friend. Typically, he supports Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, 63, as Adenauer's successor, though he knows that Erhard lacks both health and political savvy to hang on for more than one term. Then...
Among this year's new, bestselling toys: ¶Chatty Cathy, a 20-in., blue-eyed, freckle-faced doll that talks, made by Mattel. When a string on Cathy's back is pulled, she can say "Will you play with me? "Tell me a story," "PIease brush my hair," "I love you," or any of eleven different sentences in random sequence. List price...