Word: miriam
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...case involved Hanoch Langer, 27, a burly army sergeant-major, and his sister Miriam, 25. They had been barred from marrying most Jews because their mother left her first husband and married their father without a proper divorce; thus under religious law the two children became mamzerim (children of an adulterous union) and ineligible to wed anyone but other mamzerim or converts. The efforts of Hanoch and Miriam to marry their sweethearts in a valid religious ceremony became a celebrated case. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan became their advocate. Some Knesset members introduced bills which would allow civil marriage in Israel...
...Died. Miriam Hopkins, 69, sprightly blonde star of dozens of movies in the 1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in New York. A vivacious talker with a honeyed Georgia drawl off-camera, Hopkins on-screen cast shrewd eyes on her leading men. One of her early hits was Director Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). She heightened her stardom with the title role in Hollywood's first full-length Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp (1935), and the controversial These Three (1936). One of Hopkins' major professional regrets: turning down the female lead in It Happened...
MOSHE WEINBERG, 32, a Sabra (Israeli-born), was the first to die at Olympic Village. A physical education teacher, Weinberg had been coach of the wrestling team for the past six years. He is survived by his third wife, Miriam, and a five-week...
...Garrett recommends George Orwell: Fugitive from the Camp of Victory by Richard Rees, a close friend of Orwell's who has anecdotes and stories to tell. Also good is George Orwell by Raymond Williams, although Williams is sometimes obtuse. A new book. The World of George Orwell, edited by Miriam Gross, is full of pictures and reminiscenses of friends. And for those who want to have all of Orwell the four volumes of Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell published in paper by Harcourt Brace Jovanovach are unsurpassed. Although Orwell asked in his will that he be spared...
...WORLD OF GEORGE ORWELL edited by MIRIAM GROSS...