Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...architect) about the design of a new church or country club, teach a class at Scripps College (where he heads the nine-man art department), and paint a picture. Evenings-unless by chance he has been asked to make a speech on foreign affairs-he devotes to his wife and four children and to the guests they usually have visiting them...
...Austria's best skiers, and a man who likes fast cars and high living. He first crossed his rival's path back in the Nazi heyday. He was a dark and dapper little Austrian with relentless ambition, a Nazi before the Anschluss (Karajan's part-Jewish wife became one of Germany's five "honorary Aryans"). Goebbels backed Furtwängler; Goring backed Karajan. When Karajan became director of the Berlin State Opera, Furtwängler never got over it. And when Furtwängler was the first to be de-Nazified, Karajan in turn was furious...
...form: he earns his living teaching at the Boston Conservatory of Music, playing the organ in an Armenian church for services, and for weddings and funerals. Occasionally, to pick up a little change, he has harmonized popular songs. A shy, serious man, he lives with his 18-year-old wife Serafina in Boston's grubby Field Street, rough equivalent of Greenwich Village...
...public works attorney after he had worked his way through night classes at Fordham law school by selling plumbing equipment. He moved to the Treasury in 1938, became its general counsel in 1944, but quit last year "to provide for the financial security" of his wife and two daughters. He changed his mind about Government work, which he enjoys, because "I was flattered by the President's request and couldn't find any good reason for saying...
Divorced. John D. Spreckels III, 37, high-living, wife-walloping sugar heir; by his third wife, Lou Dell Breese Spreckels, 37, curlylocked blonde former costume designer (who had been married seven times before); after 23 months of marriage (six of separation); in Los, Angeles...