Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost compulsive believer in such self-improvement. He has been studying the White House works of art. In February he asked White House Curator Clem Conger for historical details about all the objects in the Oval Office, which include an 18th century portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a Frederic Remington bronze, Broncho Buster (circa 1901), and the only known replica of Charles Willson Peale's portrait of George Washington, which is currently valued at $400,-000 to $600,000. Carter recently stunned the curator of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art with his detailed knowledge...
...ailing daily Express. Sunday Express and Evening Standard. Now Sir Jimmy has struck at the other end of his London-Paris axis: for $6 million he has purchased a 45% share in L'Express, France's largest newsweekly. The magazine's founder, gadfly Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, and his family will retain 55% of the magazine's shares; but J.J. S.S. has given up the board chairmanship, and Goldsmith, as chief executive officer, claims he will have effective control...
...reaches the Roxy in Los Angeles to begin a series of appearances at the citadels of U.S. rock. At 31, Dolly is out to become, in the hyperbole of the trade, a megastar. That means she wants the rock audience. Curious about how the quest was going, TIME Correspondent Jean Vallely accompanied Dolly part of the way. Vallely's report...
...Jean L. Bruneau, professor of Comparative Literature, said another factor causing the application decline among potential applicants may be knowledge of GSAS's stringent admission policy...
...playwright Jean Giradoux had a knack for treating heavy philosophical subjects in a light way. In L'Apollo de Bellac, being performed in French at Winthrop House this weekend, it's the classical theme of beauty that's the target. As the play opens, the Greek god Apollo comes to earth with the mission of teaching a woman the secret to any man's heart: Tell him he's handsome, Apollo says; no matter how ugly, any man will believe that. It takes little social consciousness to predict that this open sesamegets the woman into more trouble than she asked...