Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Niven Busch, 52, novelist (Duel in the Sun) and screenwriter (In Old Chicago, The Westerner); and Carmencita Baker, 28, West Coast socialite; he for the fourth time (his third: Cinemactress Teresa Wright), she for the first; in San Francisco...
Brinksmanship. "The Soviet Union," he said, "is forging ahead of us in weapons of many kinds. And, worst of all, she has now challenged us to an economic duel for the great uncommitted peoples of the earth. Yet, at a time when our rigid, inflexible policy is the most precarious it has been in many years, what do we hear from our faltering Government? . . . We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinksmanship-the art of bringing us to the edge of the nuclear abyss...
...brief biographical introduction, British Essayist Violet Hammersley outlines the life that drove Madame de Sévigné to ink. Widowed at 25 when her chronically unfaithful husband was killed in a duel over his latest mistress,* Madame de Sévigné succumbed to the grand passion of possessive mother love for her only daughter. Cold, proud and wildly extravagant, the daughter was a great beauty and Madame de Sévigné married her off to a rich, twice-widowed count. But when her daughter left her side, Madame de Sévigné began carrying a literary...
YOUR FEB. 13-"DUEL IN THE SUNSHINE" FAILED TO REPORT KEFAUVER HAD NO TV TIME, THEREFORE COULD ENJOY BEING "INTERRUPTED 43 TIMES BY APPLAUSE." WE WHO ARE FOR STEVENSON ARE SMARTING UNDER THE TREMENDOUS COSTS OF BROADCASTING RATES, KNOWING OUR MAN SELDOM MAKES HIS TIME ALLOTMENT BECAUSE OF ENTHUSIASTIC INTERRUPTIONS...
...only thing you seem to be interested in these days," said Dukas. That slap in the face and the stern lecture that followed sent Rubinstein to the country and a milk diet. But after a short while there was another love affair ("Terrible, terrible-I had to fight a duel with the husband"), and Rubinstein was soon thin as a stick again...