Word: father
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, to the famous Trapp Family Singers, who dramatically escaped from the Nazis' clutches. Besides Captain Georg von Trapp, there were his seven children and their governess, a young novice from a neighboring abbey, who taught the children to sing, won their love, and married their father. As musicomedy, The Sound of Music combines the cloister and the kindergarten. nursery rhymes and Nazi salutes...
...suspense mounted. Lights were extinguished, musicians scrambled to their chairs on the bandstand. Eddie's father, Joe Fisher, a retired suitcase manufacturer from Philadelphia, turned to Aly Khan. "Prince," said he, "have some caviar. Me, I like herring." Aly nodded gravely. "Yes, Monsieur Fisher père," he replied, "when a herring is good, it is very, very good, but when it is not good, it is awful...
...candidacy for Governor of California last year, Bill Knowland slipped quietly into working harness on the Tribune, which has been in his family for 44 years. The Tribune seemed more than ready for a firm Knowland hand on the editorial side. At 86, Joseph Russell Knowland. Bill's father and the Tribune's publisher, was pretty well out of action. Bill Knowland's brother Russ, 57, was running the business end. And Bill's son Joe, 29. while willing, still needed editorial seasoning. Leaderless, the Tribune had drifted into some bad habits. Said one staffer...
...Beers' Chairman Harry Oppenheimer, who took over when his father died in 1957, says he will not produce the synthetic stones unless it becomes "economically necessary." The diamond combine prefers to concentrate on its monopoly on gems and natural industrial stones, developed its process to prevent any other synthetic-diamond producer from drastically undercutting natural industrial diamond prices. Despite De Beers' discovery, G.E. has a long head start, is improving its stones. It disclosed last week that it had developed a diamond material that can be used in metal-bonded wheels, a use that was not possible before...
...Queen's Tutors. Some fairly surprising personal views emerge from Russell's book. His aristocratic father had wanted him brought up an agnostic. Orphaned at three, he was made a ward of Queen Victoria's court, but all the Queen's tutors and all the Queen's nannies couldn't put Bertrand's faith together. By the time he left Cambridge in 1894, a philosopher and high Wrangler (the university's term for top mathematicians), he was close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell...