Word: rard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German soldiers sliced three paintings from their frames in the Grand Ducal Museum of Weimar. Last week the paintings were up on walls again, this time in Washington's National Gallery. On view were a Rembrandt 1643 self-portrait (worth upwards of $750,000), a Gérard ter Borch, one of Rembrandt's contemporaries, and a work by the 18th century German, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Their strange odyssey bespeaks of both the awe and the ignorance that surround great art works. It also suggests that masterpieces, like people, can be D.P.s...
...club was established in 1950 by a onetime Belgian diamond cutter, Gérard Blitz, 54, who got into the business by way of running hotels to rehabilitate concentration-camp victims after the war. Blitz now owns 40% of the club's shares, and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's Compagnie Financière 34%. In his original prospectus Blitz said the villages would permit members to escape from offices and factories and "rediscover the natural rhythm of life." Club President Gilbert Trigano, 45, takes a less lofty view. Says he: "We look on vacations as a product...
...RARD RUTTEN...
...situation there was terrible. The established actors would take roles they didn't want just to keep others from having them." For a year she played at the prestigious Théâtre National Populaire, where her roles placed her opposite such celebrated actors as Gérard Philipe and Robert Hirsch. Then, on Philipe's advice, she took a role in a boulevard production of The Dazzling Hour. On her second night, the show's star fell ill and Jeanne was asked to play her role. Jeanne learned the new part overnight, and the next evening...
Then there was Dr. Gérard Savoy, who was called in to treat Winnie in Lausanne in 1958, when she had a nervous breakdown. Though Dr. Savoy conveniently forgot to mention that his license had just been suspended for taking kickbacks from a nurse, he went on Winnie's payroll at $1,500 a month...