Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recorded an hour of his playing for Reprise Records early this year, says Powell is playing as well now as he did years ago when he made the series of Verve and Blue Note recordings that became a guide to a whole generation of jazz pianists. He will tour Sweden and Denmark this summer and come to New York in the fall for the first time in nearly
...Hugo, Charles Peguy, Theophile Gautier, Paul Claudel and, more recently, Jean-Paul Sartre. The poet Baudelaire was aptly pegged ("somewhat bizarre charm") before being expelled for refusing to unhand another boy's note in class (he swallowed it). Louis-le-grand produced Bankers Henri and Alphonse de Rothschild; Sweden's King Oscar II, France's President (1913-20) Raymond Poincaré, Senegal President Léopold Senghor. Premier Georges Pompidou went there, and so did at least
Next year's crop of Radcliffe College juniors will include one fetchingly regal transfer student, Sweden's Princess Christina, 19, accepted by the women's college affiliated with Harvard. The sports-minded princess enjoys ice skating and skiing, though her great interests are music, literature and theater. Christina's yen to be a "Cliffie" took shape last December after chats in Stockholm with Harvard's Nobel Prizewinning biochemist, J. D. Watson. "She will be a real asset," said Watson. "I think she's going to be a very beautiful woman...
From a million customers in 1952, Quelle has won so many fans that last year it shipped 16,200,000 packages to 76 countries. It operates twelve garment and assembly plants, 75 order offices, its own credit bank, and branch offices in Austria, Sweden, Luxembourg, Canada and the U.S. It also runs seven department stores for those who want the price advantage of Quelle without the catalogue, plans to open three more this year. By shrewd purchasing and low-cost production, Quelle keeps the prices of most of its 22,000 items 15% to 20% below those of other retailers...
Sausages & Scholars. Göttingen's grandeur goes back to 1736. when Hannover's Elector George August, who also happened to be Britain's King George II, launched the university in a hamlet then so obscure that his courtiers at first thought he meant Gothenburg in Sweden. To publicize the place. George put the school in charge of an imaginative baron named Von Münchausen-a cousin of the famous liar. By 1770 it was Germany's most important university...