Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of night that society columnists dream of. On the seafront terrace of a colonnaded mansion at Cap Ferrat, Mary Lasker widow of U.S. Advertising Tycoon Albert D. Lasker, was dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace, and Anna Rosenberg. President Truman's Assistant Defense Secretary. At nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht...
Eight servants were in the house at the time of Mrs. Lasker's dinner; yet no one saw the front door open, heard footsteps in the bedrooms upstairs, had the slightest idea that jewels worth $120,000-and Van der Kemp's key to his apartment in the Versailles Palace-were being stolen. In the Villa Mayou. the Troubetzkoys' cook, maitre d'hōtel and two royal poodles watched a Belgian bicycle race on the television set in the servants' quarters; they were unaware of the agile figure who scaled the Villa...
...grim, quiet East German left his house in East Berlin a fortnight ago and made his way to the Praesidium der Volkspolizei for a pass to enter the Western zone. A three-month pass was duly handed over, and he was not surprised, for Dr. Kurt Scharf, 58, is chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany-the highest post in German Protestantism-and his wife and four children live in the Western zone, where he has been visiting them about once a week...
Mies & More. Eero was never a man to follow another blindly. He was enormously indebted to the disciplined ("Less is more") approach of Architect Mies van der Rohe. Yet he came to regard the strict functionalism of his elders in the International Style more as a "purgative" than a final answer. For the mammoth General Motors Technical Center in Detroit, Saarinen thought not only of Mies but of Versailles, Tivoli and San Marco...
Munich's other resurrection, Strauss's Der Friedenstag, also suffered from a weak book-as did all of Strauss's operas after the death of Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss had wanted Novelist Stefan Zweig as his librettist, but he was advised-i.e., ordered-by the Nazis to find a text writer of pure Aryan stock. His choice was Library Director Joseph Gregor, whose first draft was so hopeless ("Your dialogue between the two commanders is all wrong," wrote Strauss furiously; "it reads like two school teachers") that Zweig secretly rewrote the whole thing. Acclaiming...