Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captaincy in Army Intelligence. In 1919, he went to the Versailles Peace Conference as a reparations commissioner, was shocked when Woodrow Wilson's ideals foundered (as he says) "under the pressure of people who wanted to be vindictive." Never thereafter losing sight of the fundamental need for Christian tolerance and justice in international relations, Dulles in the '305 became the Presbyterians' No. 1 layman. He carried his convictions to the Protestants' Federal Council of Churches, was made chairman of the council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace...
Such passion, common to both sides since Charlemagne's time, has been hotting up for weeks-ever since the Saar's French Puppet-Premier Johannes ("Jo-ho") Hoffmann announced that elections will be held next Sunday. Superficially, the vote will decide whether Joho Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or the Social Democrats will dominate the Saar Landtag for the next few years; actually, it will demonstrate whether the 968,000 Saarlanders want to stay with France, under a virtual protectorate, or prefer to rejoin the fatherland from which they gladly separated in the graveyard days...
...many of the others believed in churches or some sort of Christian system of values, they did not say so. Most of them, however, said they believed in "people" or "humanity," and almost all were strong for "freedom," "democracy" and the Golden Rule. There was a general feeling that "we can build a better world," where there will be "no bloodshed, hatred and disease...
...Bill Dalton), and probably at least one more like the Biblical epic Slaves of Babylon, soon to be released. Says Jungle Sam: "We got underwater stuff and we got overwater stuff and we got those three characters in the fiery furnace and on top of that we got Linda Christian doing her first screen dance." He frankly admits that many of his pictures are obvious remakes of past smashes. But he beams: "They were good in the old days. They're good now. We got a new generation, but they got the same old glands...
...Hans Christian Andersen (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is an unusual cinebiography in that it candidly disclaims having anything to do with the facts of its subject's life. A foreword to the picture announces: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about this great spinner of fairy tales...