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Word: josef (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franz-Josef Wurmeling, a booming, bright-eyed Berliner, is one of those well-meaning souls who feel compelled to share their righteousness with less fortunate neighbors. Herr Doktor Wurmeling is West Germany's first Minister for Family Affairs, the official champion of a higher birth rate, a lower divorce rate, more authority for the German husband. A zealous Roman Catholic husband and father (five children), he deplores short skirts, long embraces, plunging necklines. "My ministry," explains Wurmeling, "is the patron saint and guardian of the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Defender of the Family | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Carl E. Morgan, became the first of his breed since famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. ¶ New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student, ran the distance in 4:04.4 in Auckland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...week long, New York sportswriters filled their columns with conjectures about Josef Barthel's chances of breaking Gil Dodds's indoor mile record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nonchalant Miler | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Millrose Games meet-and its famed Wanamaker Mile-the Madison Square Garden box office was turning away business. The track fans were considerably more excited than 26-year-old Josef Barthel. Luxembourg's 1,500-meter Olympic champion (and record holder) was more concerned with his Harvard postgraduate studies in sanitary engineering. After classes, on the day of the meet, Barthel finally got around to hopping a train in Boston, and reached Manhattan just a few hours before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nonchalant Miler | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Boston, Olympic 1,5000-meter Champion Josef Barthel of Luxembourg, now a graduate student at Harvard, made an impressive U.S. debut as a miler: 4:10.3 clocking as he beat FBI-Man Fred Wilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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