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Echoes of Profumo. Central figure of the case, Cardin told a press conference, was an "East German" blonde who had lived in Canada from 1955 to 1961, then returned to Germany, where she had died. He gave her name as Olga Munsinger and said she had been a spy before moving to Canada. There, he asserted, she had become involved with some of Diefenbaker's "Ministers-plural," and when Dief had found out about the affairs he had done nothing to stop them. "This is worse than Profumo," Cardin charged...
Then came another explosion. "The girl Canada calls Olga Munsinger is alive and well," announced the Toronto Star in an exclusive story that covered most of its front page. "Her real name is Gerda Munsinger," said the story, and she had fled Communist territory as a refugee when she was 19. Tracked down in Munich by Reporter Robert Reguly, Gerda was living in a "chintzy" apartment at Ainmillerstrasse I, working as the assistant manager of a go-go cabaret and at 36 was still "tall, blonde and shapely...
...done more for education and understanding of teachers than any other book," exclaims Jean Thomas, curriculum supervisor in the San Francisco public schools. "As a portrait of teen-age society, it is a classic on the order of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye," says Los Angeles Teacher Olga Richards. "I'm not familiar with the book," huffs H. M. Landrum, superintendent of Houston's Spring Branch School District...
...born in Paris just a block away from Alkan's home), he appeared as a bit actor in several Jackie Cooper films, attended a professional school "for spoiled movie brats." At 20, with prize money he won in piano competitions, he went to Manhattan to study with Olga Samaroff Stokowski, Leopold's first wife and a former pupil of Elie's, the fellow with the apes and the cockatoos. After his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1946, Lewenthal toured the U.S. for three years. While he was walking through Central Park one summer evening...
...Picasso, the taste of theater was seductive. He stayed on with the Ballet Russe for eight years. He married Diaghilev Ballerina Olga Koklova, sketched the troupe as it rehearsed, painted dancers' portraits, and designed theater curtains, scenery and costumes for five more ballets-often appearing in the wings on opening night with paint and brushes to add his final touch...