Word: waldemar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
...same bitter circumstances that threaten to transform decent patriotism into indecent nationalism are conspiring also to choke democracy's growth. The saddest and plainest diagnosis I have heard came from a brainy, sober man of 42 who has fought Fascism all his life-Waldemar von Knoeringen, head of Bavaria's Socialist Party...
Rumba Fancier. Among the magazine's famed editors have been Waldemar Kaempffert (now science editor of the New York Times); and the late, brilliant Edward E. Free. But Scientific American has been dominated by the family which has owned and published it through almost its entire career, the Manhattan Munns, one of Ward McAllister's original "400." Present editor and publisher (third in the line) is Orson Desaix Munn, 61, a patent lawyer, crack bird hunter and fisherman, rumba fancier, familiar figure in Manhattan café society. He passes on everything that goes into the magazine...
...best players by & large are those who apply new bidding methods to years of bidding skill. Year in & year out, Life Masters Charles Goren, Howard Schencken, Sidney Silodor, Waldemar von Zedtwitz and B. Jay Becker dominate the tournament-bridge world...
Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Master of Leverett House, and book review editor of "The New England Quarterly" has been appointed, with Bennet Cerf, editor for Random House and "The Saturday Review of Literature," and Waldemar Kaempffert, science editor of the New York Times, to the Book Committee of "The Key Reporter," membership quarterly of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary society...