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DIED. Lillian Gertrud Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the Titanic and the only one in the world old enough to recall the wreck; in Shrewsbury, Mass. The intensely private Asplund was 5 when the ship sank in the North Atlantic. She spoke publicly about the ordeal only once, saying she was forever haunted by the memory of her father and three of her brothers, who died, standing at the ship's railings as she, another brother and their mother were taken away in a lifeboat...
...higher rate than women over 35." This is not true. There are more babies born with Down syndrome to women under 35, but that is because there are more babies born to women under 35. The risk of Down and other genetic abnormalities increases with age, according to Gertrud Berkowitz, a Mount Sinai School of Medicine professor, and it is misleading to mix rates with absolute numbers...
...complements the characters without obscuring them. Nicole Gertrud Peskin's set design is an effective, not-too-ambitious late Victorian concoction of opulent brocade upholstery, polished parquet and lace curtains...
Social Minister Gertrud Sigurdsen said there would be no official declaration of national mourning, for which Sweden has no precedent...
...started dancing as a young child in pre-partition Palestine. Despite their poverty, her parents were determined to give her as much culture as possible. Fortunately the neighborhood dance teacher was Gertrud Kraus, once a well known dancer-choreographer in Europe. At the age of 16 she began to study and perform with Rena Gluck of the Graham School. When Anna Sokolow came to Esrael around 1958, Ze'eva performed in her Lyrical TTheater. Sokolow was so impressed by the young performer that she offered Ze'eva a ticket to the United States so she could study on scholarship...