Word: henried
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Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...
Until their exhumation, the bodies had lain in the Henri-Chappelle cemetery near...
Next morning, the Scheveningen concert was the talk of The Netherlands. Indignant Dutch critics accused Conductor Ignaz Neumark and his 86 state-paid musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby...
French Ambassador Henri Bonnet and smart wife Helle (who ran a Manhattan hat shop during the war) arrived by air. Mme. Bonnet posed for photographers in her stylish grey tweed, 5 in. b.t.k. Discreet statement by the Ambassador: "I have no opinion on these matters...
...other U.S. designers are not so sure. Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie, who claims to have started the hip-padding "before anyone heard of Dior," was featuring Paris dresses last week, and busily pinching in waists, lowering hems. So was Manhattan's Henri Bendel, who was showing ankle-length skirts and padded hips. Nettie Rosenstein, the top designer of the mass-producing Seventh Avenue factories, was going in for padding and long skirts. Seventh Avenue's Harriet Harra went even further with a "wraparound" cocktail suit which would have made an Egyptian mummy feel at home. But Russian...