Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Napoleon at St. Helena, by General Henri-Gatien Bertrand. A vivid account of Napoleon's last months, from the journals of his grand marshal (TIME...
...four days, talk of modern medicine was barred from Paris' Maison de la Médecine. The squat hall, across the square from Napoleon's tomb, was taken over by the latter-day devotees of a "healing" art older than Western civilization itself: the International Society of Acupuncture. His Imperial Highness Prince Buu Loc, Vietnamese Ambassador to France, assured the 350 delegates from 16 countries that the Western world was at last recognizing the virtues of acupuncture -the ancient Chinese custom of giving the patient the needles...
Married. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 44, fifth-generation head of the Krupp arms-making dynasty (from Napoleon to the Nazis), whose twelve-year sentence (in 1948) for war crimes was cut short last year; and Martha Vera Wilhelmina Knauer, German-born U.S. citiztn; in Berchtesgaden, Germany...
...happier twist of plot, that beauteous Janet Leigh is not really his sister, as he had supposed. This latter development prompts Eleanor Parker, a red-haired hellcat with whom Granger has been whiling away the previous reels, to console herself with a young Corsican lieutenant named Napoleon Bonaparte...
...Napoleon at St. Helena, by General Henri-Gatien Bertrand. A vivid account of Napoleon's last months, from the journals of his grand marshal (TIME...