Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday, November 21 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Director George Schaefer returns to television after a year's absence to pre side over "The File on Devlin," which stars Dame Judith Anderson, Elizabeth Ashley and David McCallum...
...INSTANT FAME. TV, Agnew charged, can create issues overnight and turn nobodies into national figures. But Agnew's own examples suggested that this process has limits. He mentioned Stokely Carmichael; in Carmichael's case, notoriety happened, at least in part, for complicated psychological reasons having to do with white guilt. Agnew also mentioned George Lincoln Rockwell; in his case, only minor notoriety resulted, and only assassination transformed him into a national figure...
...corporate merger; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Once described as "a man whose manner is pleasantly abrasive, like a rough towel after a cold shower," Eberstadt was an enormously successful investment banker (F. Eberstadt & Co., Inc.) and mutual-fund pioneer (Chemical Fund), but his greatest fame came from his ability to help arrange some of industry's biggest mergers over the years: Dodge and Chrysler, United Artists and Transamerica Corp., Douglas Aircraft and McDonnell Aircraft and, on the day of his death, Northeast and Northwest Airlines...
Andreas' son Democritas, whose short hair and well-pressed neatness would certainly appeal to Agnew, has been deeply affected by his cousin's fame. "Now he has a name." says his father, "a dream to live up to." Democritas is a high school senior and has ambitions to be an accountant. He hopes to win the $1,000 scholarship that Agnew established in his grandfather's memory for the youth of Gargaliani...
...came from the Geldern region of The Netherlands and studied or worked in Paris or Burgundy before settling in Hamburg. Probably he spent his life in monkish seclusion (like his contemporary Fra Angelico in Italy), painting for the glory of God and the benefit of his order while the fame of his brush spread throughout the Hanseatic trading towns of Eastern Europe to the farthest reaches of the Baltic. Commissions came in to his monastery from as far away as Estonia and Finland...