Word: olaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich...
...dreamlike clockwork precision, a sense of Jacques being nimble, Jacques being quick. But it is something very like charm that most enhances what is good in the show and cushions what is not. It is what lends lure to Robert Dhery's unbrilliant compere patter, appealingness to Pierre Olaf's pranks. It adds something human and wistful to the calisthenic comedy of the high point of the evening. This first-act finale, in which four monks make jubilant Maypole madness of four bell ropes, becomes-even as it is being laughed over-one of the tell-the-grandchildren...
...Died. Olaf Gulbransson, 85, snub-nosed, sybaritic cartoonist for Germany's satirical weekly Simplicissimus since 1902 ; of a stroke; at his home overlooking Te-gernsee, West Germany. Eccentric (at work he often wore only a loincloth), Norwegian-born Gulbransson gained world repute for his boldly contoured caricatures. He continued to work for Simplicissimus even after (in 1933) it became a Nazi-run organ, once gave the political artist's classic explanation: "I hate them as much as you do, but what's the use fighting them...
Died. Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, 79, daughter of Frederik VIII of Denmark, widow of Prince Carl (who turned down the Norwegian crown), mother-in-law of Norway's King Olaf V and Denmark's Prince Axel; in Stockholm...
What the North Koreans were up to soon became clear. The U.N.'s armistice negotiations chief. Major General Olaf Keyster, demanded and got a Panmunjom session, received an answer to demands for return of the plane and passengers that was understandable as a ransom note: difficulties would be smoothed over if South Korea would recognize North Korea officially (which it has always refused to do) by entering into direct negotiations for the missing DC-3. As huge mobs of outraged Seoul citizens yelled for action, the answer came from explosive South Korean President Syngman Rhee: "No!" By early this...