Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejoice at your vision in the selection of Willy Brandt [Jan. 4]. Would that some of our other leaders might learn from him that only the strong can afford to be weak...
...Warts and All" [Jan. 4] really grabbed me. For over an embarrassing year, my warts were so rampant that I feared a doctor's estimate for removal. However, while preparing for a large party, I polished silver daily for a week, and the silver polish disintegrated the little pests in short order...
...1930s, Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune feared nothing. Not even the English language. With the help of a scholarly staffer named James O'Donnell Bennett, McCormick set out in the Trib to change Chicagoland's spelling habits. "Simplified spelling" made its debut on Jan. 28, 1934, and schoolteachers all over the Middle West found themselves fighting to save pupils from such Tribisms as hocky, fantom and definitly. Freighters became fraters and sheriffs sherifs. A Trib editorial proclaimed that there was "rime and reason for every alteration...
...group. It was Paul McCartney who quit the Beatles last spring and who is now formally seeking to dissolve the group in a London court. The only thing Lennon regrets about that, or so he says in a current two-part interview in Rolling Stone magazine (TIME, Jan. 18), is that he did not walk out first...
Died. Major General Heinrich Lammerding, 65. commander of a Nazi SS division responsible for the massacre of hundreds of French civilians in 1944, who recently came to public attention (TIME, Jan. 11) as Germany and France prepared to plug the legal loopholes that had permitted him to escape justice; of undisclosed causes, although he was reportedly suffering from heart trouble; in Bad Tölz, Germany...