Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Franz Liszt, history's most vaunted piano virtuoso (and the teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience of 3,000, who greeted him with "thunderous applause such as had not been heard in Russia for over a century." The pianist who has been...
Died. Lucien Lelong, 68, Paris dress designer and parfumeur; of a heart attack; in Biarritz, France. As president of the fashion-ruling Chambre Syndicate de la Couture, Lelong persuaded the World War II Nazi invaders not to shift the fashion capital from Paris to Berlin because only in Paris could couture flourish, and German-dominated postwar Europe would need a flourishing couture to compete with Manhattan's Seventh Avenue...
Your article [April 21] distorts and omits facts in presenting what should be a full-dress debate on the arms race, nuclear and otherwise. You are certainly aware that an end to nuclear tests is part of the official U.S. disarmament package. This committee has publicly endorsed the President's recent proposals to Khrushchev. We differ from Administration policy on what step should be taken first: we advocate separation of the nuclear test ban from the total package...
...trucks to round up the government leaders. Major General Gabriel Paris was collected so swiftly that he rode off to military police barracks wearing pajamas and robe, but no slippers. Brigadier General Rafael Navas Pardo's sentry fired a few shots at the kidnapers, gave him time to dress in the dark and head for the back-garden wall. Just as he was about to go over, a voice said quietly: "My General Navas, come along...
...annual Maid of the North contest in Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland. "I didn't drink then, was much slimmer, and managed to turn out really quite a beautiful face," recalls Jämsä. Well padded, he looked fine in the required Finnish national costume and evening dress, got through an interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize. Jämsä promptly mounted the orchestra platform, beckoned for silence, then whipped out his falsies and waved them triumphantly in the air. The contest...