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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reports, our Los Angeles bureau staffers conducted more than 100 interviews in California, Arizona and Idaho over the course of the six weeks they were on the story. "It was an experience traveling with Marilyn," Goodman writes, in recollection of an interview that took place in a chartered plane en route to Sun Valley. For this occasion, Marilyn wore what she calls her "disguise." This consisted of a Venetian gondolier's brown straw hat with white band, smoked glasses, no makeup at all, a man's heavy black sweater, grey striped trousers, high heels and a floor-length...
...Received as a present from West German President Theodor Heuss a book en titled Praesident Dwight D. Eisenhower's Vorfahren und Verwartdte, which traces Ike's family five centuries back to the Odenwald Mountains...
...most princely private caravans of art ever to take to the road was camped last week in Portland, Ore., first stop on an 18-month tour of major U.S. museums. Carried in three moving vans, traveling by secret routes and picking up police escorts en route, the show's 101 paintings added up to $5,600,000 worth of art masterworks, ranging in period from late Renaissance to Braque and Matisse, in size from a 20-ft. Monet Nymphéas to an 11-in Madonna and Child by Dutch Master Lucas van Leyden. Owner of this treasure trove...
...question had never been an issue, and that the Club's position on the fee had been explained. No contracts had been signed, he observed, and the $300 fee that had been agreed upon was inadequate to pay for the additional costs necessitated by going out of the way en route from Charleston, S.C., to Jacksonville...
Prompted by Nehru, Sihanouk next visited Red China's Premier Chou En-lai in Peking. Up to that moment Cambodia (the most serene of the three states that once made up French Indo-China) had been one of the few remaining countries in Southeast Asia where overseas Chinese, controlling most of the country's transport, banking and merchandising, appeared to retain a basic sympathy with Nationalist China. Said Sihanouk, stepping out of the plane on his return from Peking three weeks ago: "There are two Chinas, but the only China to which Cambodians go is Communist China." Almost...