Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Make a Fuss!" The most conspicuous case of stardom sickness recently befell Edouard Streltsov, darling of Moscow's soccer fans. When Edouard hit the big time in 1955 as center forward on the "Torpedo" team of the Moscow Likhachev (formerly Stalin) Auto Plant, he was a clear-eyed, husky youth of 17. But then his sporting instincts turned to women and wine...
...arrested? Streltsov, our best footballer! For heaven's sake, don't make a fuss!" The plant even gave him a luxury apartment after he had tossed his wife and infant into the street, and the Moscow City Economic Council continued to shower him with bonuses. Edouard loved the high life. "I've tried everything, achieved everything, seen everything," he boasted. "I've even eaten salads that cost 87 rubles and 50 kopeks...
Caressing Shadows. Edouard Manet, who eventually won the Légion d'honneur ribbon, strove mightily to stay on the good side of the academicians. Though his subject matter was often as old as Giorgione's and Raphael's, the fact that he presented his themes in modern dress was enough to outrage viewers brought up on neoclassicism and romantic literary allusions. Manet discovered his clue to portraiture, and his fresh, vigorous palette, in the paintings of the 17th century painter Velásquez. In The Fifer, Manet even used the same greyish background Velásquez...
President Edouard Cournand holds that "if you give away too much too often, it loses its value." The Evans Case Co. recently scratched its giveaways of handbags, which had hit $25,000 a year on such matinee tearjerkers as Queen For a Day and The Big Payoff, because "we never traced a single sale to the TV giveaways." General Electric also is cool to giveaways. Reasons G.E.: "Viewers may be encouraged to try to win a product rather than...
...EDOUARD L. COURNAND PRESIDENT LANVIN PARFUMS, INC. NEW YORK CITY