Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ted Snyder, 84, Tin Pan Alleyman, sometime collaborator with Irving Berlin, and composer of Who's Sorry Now? and Sheik of Araby (which he wrote for Rudolph Valentino); charter member with Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa in 1914, of ASCAP; of heart disease; in Encino, Calif...
...take over and sell the family's china factory. Though Peppard was once a ne'er-do-well, amnesia has instantly transformed him into a decent chap who knows he is incapable of murder and irresponsible profiteering. He finds a kindred soul in his father-in-law (Herbert Marshall), a tycoon smitten with aphasia and therefore exempted from many a dull speech. Reels later, the hero's name, his wife's pretty neck, his marriage and the fine china are salvaged. Actors Peppard and Ashley, a romantic duo off screen as well as on, toil...
...Bones About It. Behind this Triumph is Executive Director Herbert Braun, 55, a shy and ascetic "Herr Doktor" (economics and social sciences), who seized the hardly new idea that bras and girdles should be attractive as well as functional. Braun hired Designer Heinrich Ernst Hoelscher in 1955 to re-engineer the company's products along lines that had already been adopted in the U.S. The men could do little to change the clumsy German name for the bra-Büstenhalter-but they did alter the garment itself. Out came deeply plunging bras made of stretchable synthetics with less...
...Prophecy. Pius' encyclical Casti Connubii may have been the apogee of the church's denunciation of birth control. Five years after it appeared, German Theologian Herbert Doms was tentatively proposing a personalist theology of marriage that gave primacy to love rather than childbearing. Although the Vatican at the time criticized Doms's theories, papal statements on marriage were soon to shift emphasis. Even as he denounced "the pill" as immoral in 1951, Pope Pius XII strongly affirmed the spiritual values of sex. "The conjugal act," he said, "is a personal action, which, according to the word...
...evolved into a 100,000-man force with $8 billion worth of equipment, a $1 billion-a-year budget and 1,500,000 miles of communications circuits. The largest component of the multiservice North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) at Colorado Springs, ADC is commanded by Lieut. General Herbert B. Thatcher, who flew one of the F-51s at Mitchell 15 years ago. Its major missions...