Word: habe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that she would not share another cent she makes with Meneghini. As for Onassis, it wasn't passion, just money, said Callas. "My relations with him involve business matters." One possible Onassis-backed "business matter": a contract to play the lead in a film version of Novelist Hans Habe's serialized German potboiler, Die Primadonna...
...LIMITS (466 pp.)-Hans Habe-Frederick Fell...
This book might have borrowed its title more appropriately from Noel Coward's World War II ditty, Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Though Novelist Habe (real name: Jean Bekessy) is Hungarian-born, he peddles the familiar made-in-Germany apologia that most Germans were as innocent as the children of Hamelin town, and that only the wicked Pied Piper of Berchtesgaden seduced them into evil ways. More surprising. Novelist Habe, who rose to the rank of major in the U.S. Army, was decorated, and served with the occupation forces, argues that the Americans...
...Author Habe seeks to temper his anti-Americanism with organ-tone laments about history being bigger than both peoples and no nation being fit to judge another. Americans need not fear criticism, or insulate their consciences from an accounting of the wrongs the U.S. can and does commit. But this book does not really offer such an accounting. Instead, it offers Author Habe's strange verdict that the U.S., acting in good faith, has done more harm to Europe than the nation which, twice within a quarter-century, launched total...
...daughters, three each by former marriages, have been married 20 times. Her daughters have had ten husbands; Adelaide Close married 1) Thomas W. Durant, 2) Merrall MacNeille and 3) Augustus Riggs IV; Eleanor Close married 1) Preston Sturges, 2) Etienne Marie Robert Gautier, 3) George Curtis Rand, 4) Hans Habe, 5) Owen D. Johnson and 6) Leon Barzin; Nedenia Hutton married Stanley M. Rumbough Jr. The Davies daughters have wed six times: Eleanor married 1) Thomas P. Cheeseborough Jr. and 2) ex-Senator Millard Tydings; Rahel married 1) Aldace Walker 2) Burdette M. Fitch and 3) Fontaine Broun; Emlen married...