Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...espionage. He could tell the Russians little they could not read in the papers: his main role was to provide jobs and a front for others. Under orders from "Herbert," who was succeeded by "Peter;" he founded a $136,000 record-publishing company with Millionaire Leftist Alfred K. Stern as partner. Stern did not know a bar of music, but he was married to Martha Dodd, daughter of F.D.R.'s Ambassador to Germany, and, on Morros' showing, one of the more poisonous women to appear in U.S. history. Morros' other contacts were also personality problems...
PARIS--Gen. Charles de Gaulle became president of France yesterday and pledged to use his strong executive powers to keep the new Fifth Republic on the stern path he outlined as premier. He declared he would do what had to be done for the nation's good...
From an educator not given to easy alarm crying, the U.S. this week got stern reproof for a widespread educational failure. Said longtime (1933-53) Harvard President James B. Conant: more than a year's close study of U.S. high schools has left him much less concerned with programs in mathematics and science than with a "most distressing situation" in the teaching of foreign languages. Conant's bluntly-worded report: "In school after school only two years of any language were offered ... I submit that to study a language for two years, even two languages for two years...
...were down even more sharply. In desperation, some Manhattan merchants pasted ads in subway coach windows-at $2,000 a day for four displays in each car-or bought space in neighborhood papers, e.g., the Greenwich Village Villager, which was not affected by the strike. On 42nd Street, Stern's department store installed eight pretty girls in show windows to chalk sales specials on blackboards, got so much response that the girls may be used even after the newspapers are back. Radio station WMCA began selling retail announcements on a half-hour program hitherto devoted to public service, sold...
...Oriental spell extends beyond Miyoshi and Pat. Wilbur, the stern-eyed stage-door guard, feels that the Oriental chorus girls are politer and less brassy than the usual types; the director and the choreographer feel that the whole cast is more disciplined and quicker to learn. Says Oscar Hammerstein: "It's a strange flavor they have. They don't fawn, they don't scrape, they listen carefully. I don't think they're any more intelligent than other people, but I think the intelligence is less obscured by neuroticism." Translates Dick Rodgers: "We have...