Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to act. In his small studio he took out a sheet of his fine drawing paper, wrote: "I name Pierre Bonnard my sole legatee," and signed it with the name of Maria Boursin. But he was so inept a scoundrel that he dated the will on the day he wrote it-ten months after Marthe's death. When Bonnard himself died in 1947, the obvious fakery of the will threw everything into confusion. Bonnard's direct heirs found themselves challenged for a half share in the estate by four nieces of his wife Marthe. The works that...
...secret 1915 promise that drew Italy into the war on the side of the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia), the victorious Allies awarded Italy the strategic Brenner Pass and a slice of Austrian Alpine territory the size of Connecticut leading up to it. The Italians changed the name of the region to Alto Adige, Italianized town and street names. Benito Mussolini's eager henchmen even substituted "Giovanni" for "Johannes" on tombstones...
...intense, rail-thin man with a bush of a mustache and thick-framed spectacles-a man society columnists joshed as Brazil's "worst dressed of 1958"-last week became front runner for the presidency in 1960. His name Janio Quadros...
...years ago, Wilde was just plain Cockney Reg Smith, plunking away for $1.40 a night in a London club. Parnes, a onetime dress-shop owner who had hopped on the bandwagon with top British Rocker Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957), picked up Smith and gave him his new name. Parnes is as mystical as a horse breeder about the importance of names, and the monikers sprouted as fast as his stable: Billy Fury, 17, light-sideburned Dicky Pride, 17, Vince Eager, 18, and Johnny Gentle, the old man of the group at 22. "What you have to do with...
...stage, the boys' styles are so derivative that more appropriate names might have been Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis or Ricky Nelson. But British teenagers are rapidly turning the muscle-named singers into national heroes. And the boys themselves, in wry comment on how well Parnes is doing on the deal, have given him a new name too: "Parnes, Shillings and Pence...