Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, white-faced and trembling. Nobody could recall ever seeing him quite so mad before. He had personally hand-picked Eugen Gerstenmaier, 48, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, as the man to succeed the late Hermann Ehlers as Speaker of the Bundestag (Lower House). Gerstenmaier was a Christian Democratic Deputy, a leading Protestant Church official (and thus a politically useful counterweight to the Catholic Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier's qualifications for the speakership, Chancellor Adenauer also had a reason for wanting him kicked upstairs...
...ECKHARDT, Methodist professor of religion at Lehigh University, in The Christian Century...
Nightmare in Manhattan. In his junior year, Bobby and Texas were beaten only twice, by Texas Christian and Rice. As a senior, Bobby went to work for a new coach: Blair Cherry, who gave him his first lessons in the intricacies of the T. Meanwhile, Bobby had also found time to marry a pretty Texas coed, Carol Ann Krueger, but his first love was still football. Coach Cherry recalls taking Bobby and his wife to the Chicago Cardinal camp in the summer of 1947. "Bobby never forgot for a moment that the purpose of the trip was to learn about...
Died. Jacques Fath, 42, French dress designer who parlayed a one-room Paris salon into a $2,000,000-a-year business; of leukemia; in Paris. One of the three giants of postwar Paris fashion (the others: Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain), Fath branched into the U.S. market in 1948 with a ready-to-wear line sold in 200 cities by such stores as Lord & Taylor, I. Magnin, Neiman-Marcus...
...story: Adam Calhorn Shaw (Edmund Purdom) has everything a young man could want-prominent family, imminent fame, eminent income. Two young women (Linda Christian and Jane Powell) want not only him, but his attributes, too. Linda is a nice, safe society type, but Jane (the Athena of the title) is something else again. She lives with grandma (Evelyn Varden) and grandpa (Louis Calhern) on a Southern California hilltop. Grandma, a buxom old beldam, wears a flowing white burnoose. Grandpa is a gay old (78) caloric crank...