Word: gem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stone once worn by Marie Antoinette and supposedly possessed of an Oriental curse. Mrs. McLean's husband bought it in Turkey in 1911; he subsequently went insane, his eldest son was killed in a car accident, while Mamie's mother died at 25 of sleeping pills. The gem was sold in 1949 to Jeweler Harry Winston, who in turn gave it to the Smithsonian, "where," says Mamie firmly, "it belongs...
Schumann: Carnaval (Artur Rubinstein; RCA Victor). Some of Schumann sounds like the fourth draft of a suicide note from a heartsick spinster. But here is an unpremeditated celebration of life, in which Rubinstein's firm hand keeps Schumann's Gemütlichkeit infectious rather than cloying...
While they talk bravely of the future and are confident that old habits die hard, tobaccomen are hedging by diversifying their interests. U.S. Tobacco now makes candy too. Philip Morris has bought out Burma-Shave, Clark Chewing Gum and American Safety Razor (Personna, Pal, Gem). R. J. Reynolds has gone into several lines from fruit punch to packaging...
...restaurants and Bierstuben, they swapped stories with old friends over Rhenish beer and schnapps beneath banners proclaiming "For Silesia." The occasion was the regular reunion of Germans expelled from Communist Poland after World War II. During a mammoth rally at fairgrounds on the banks of the Rhine, the gemütlich scene suddenly turned into a riot; stirred up by a rabble-rousing politician, the crowd nearly mobbed a German TV reporter who had suggested that Poland is doing well by the territories seized from Germany after World War II. In German politics, it is an article of faith that...
...Champion gem hunter is a man from St. Louis who hardly moves at all. He selects a likely spot, sits on the ground, and peers at the bare earth. For hours, as the sun's angle slowly changes, he watches for a tiny glitter. It may be only a bit of quartz or a chip from a broken pop bottle, but when he sees the glitter, he dares not move his head. He just stares rigidly so as not to lose the gleam, while his wife, who has been waiting for orders, follows his directions and picks up whatever...