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...there was no chance that the West German government, which backed this show, would agree to send souvenirs of a bitter past to England; and even less that its various corporate underwriters would want their coffee, cars and airliners associated with Nazi imagery. So those flaxen-haired Madchens, village scenes and straining athletes are fated to crouch in the basement of art history, invested with a diabolic aura that in the light of common day would shrivel. They may be sodden kitsch, but to claim they are not a significant part of German cultural history is wishful thinking...
DIED. Charlotte Henry, 67, flaxen-haired Hollywood heroine, who starred in such prewar entertainments as Babes in Toyland, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and, most notably, the 1933 Alice in Wonderland, in which she played Alice to Cary Grant's Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper's White Knight and W.C. Fields' Humpty Dumpty; of a brain tumor; in San Diego...
That's news? Well, yes, in a way, because Lulu really was a lulu: the world's first "test-tube baby," as the tabloids proclaimed her, who in a revolutionary procedure was conceived outside the womb. The flaxen-haired girl not only was pretty but also had begun to talk at ten months. Said Truck Driver Father Jon Brown: "We think she's going to grow up into a very pretty blond and a very intelligent...
...result, the multiracial Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (D.T.A.), which South Africa has fostered and supported, ran virtually unopposed. To be sure, there were four right-wing fringe parties in the race, including one white-supremist group that ran under the portrait of a flaxen-haired young maiden holding a puppy with that party's slogan: VOTE FOR HER SAKE. The South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the U.N.-backed political movement that has been waging guerrilla warfare in the territory since 1966, refused to take part in the elections...
Brandt and his flaxen-haired Norwegian wife Rut were at the door to greet the crowd. More than 500 ordinary Germans, who normally would have been held back by police lines, trooped into the splendidly furnished 14-room residence. Stiff at first, they gawked at the Gobelin tapestry on the wall and perched awkwardly on the edge of burgundy settees and easy chairs. But the uneasiness quickly wore off. Soon workingmen in open shirts, longhaired youths and nurses from a nearby hospital were helping themselves to cigarettes, guzzling beer and surveying the place as if they owned...