Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White Rose. Most touching and unsung of all were the children and youths who resisted the Nazis. Helmut Huebener, 17, was guillotined for writing some 20 pamphlets denouncing the Nazi destruction of Warsaw and Rotterdam. Hans and Sophie Scholl, a handsome brother and sister who seemed outwardly to be the outdoor-loving prototypes of Hitler youth, organized an underground at the University of Munich. Under the romantic name of the White Rose, they authored pamphlets eloquently attacking the regime. After one particular Nazi outrage, they openly distributed the leaflets around the university, even scattered them from rooftops in the vain...
...receiving the Feb. 7 issue, I searched the back of my An Affair to Remember album in vain for information on the fascinatingly beautiful voice listed only as "soprano-Marnie Nixon." The big question then became "Who is Marnie Nixon?" Thank you for not letting such a voice go unsung...
...most important year in their history. Their emergence has manifested itself in many ways: in passive resistance, in angry demands, in patient example, in significant achievement. No longer does performance in sport or music circumscribe Negro accomplishments, and in an accompanying eight-page portfolio, TIME looks at some unsung Negro successes in American life...
...People by its heroine, a Mata Hari from Minnesota who worked for British Intelligence under the code name Cynthia. Her real name: Elizabeth Pack. Using the boudoir as Ian Fleming's hero uses a Beretta, she was described by her wartime boss as "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." After the war Cynthia married her onetime prey, the ardent Charles, and with him retreated to a remote 10th century French chateau where she died last week, at 53, of throat cancer...
...Shimer has fewer courses than any college going," says its president, F. Joseph Mullin, 56, and he means it as a boast. Largely unknown and unsung outside the Midwest, Shimer (rhymes with rhymer) aims to be not a training school of the professions but a "community of scholars.'' The Episcopal-related college has no departments, and teachers move through the school's three areas-humanities, social sciences and natural sciences-as easily as do the students. The chaplain, for example, teaches drama...