Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infirmed, butler, Mr. Pinkbell, who never appears on stage. Since the companion is at the focus of both of these quarrels, it is on the strength of the performance of Miss Madrigal that "Chalk Garden" stands or falls, and at Tufts a girl by the name of Karen Johnson is doing a fine...
William Y. Elliott, Director of the Harvard Summer School, left for Moscow yesterday with Vice President Richard Nixon, it was learned last night. Elliott's name had not appeared on the published lists of members of the Nixon party, and it is thought that his decision to accompany the Vice President may have been made since last Friday...
People's Choice. By the time he got back to Germany in 1953, Manfred Petz had changed his name to Freddy Quinn. He began to play nightclubs and pick up TV and radio spots, then he recorded Heimweh. "The people," says he, "discovered me." Freddy has already made another record. Heimatlos (Homeless), which has hit the 1,000,000 mark, has still another, Die Gitarre und das Meer (The Guitar and the Sea), that is climbing fast and was released in the U.S. last week. He has three hit movies behind him and a turn-of-the-century Hamburg...
...conquest of Ethiopia, suffered 15 years' confinement under Mussolini, was Rome's first mayor after its liberation. He dreamed of opening his palace to the public, a task that his daughter, Princess Orietta, has now accomplished. Her husband, Britisher Frank Pogson, has traded his own name for Doria-Pamphili to carry on the noble line...
Midas was no legend. Generations of kings bearing his name reigned over Phrygia from the great city of Gordium,* now a desert waste 70 miles southwest of Turkey's Ankara. Two years ago an archaeological expedition mounted by the University of Pennsylvania, scratching the Gordian ground, broke through to tombs, closed up eight centuries before Christ. One contained the bones of Midas' line. Also found in the tombs were a four-poster bed (bearing a five-ft.-three-skeleton), inlaid screens and tables, riding gear, weapons and quantities of bronze objects, from giant caldrons ornamented with winged figures...