Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After outdistancing his entourages in a fortnight's dashing about Italy, tireless Tourist Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman raced on to Austria, where he was soon ensconced in the third row of a Salzburg concert hall. As Music Lover Truman watched approvingly, Conductor Bernhard Paumgartner struck up the band, then quickly stopped the music while guards kicked out a movie cameraman who had ignored a signal to go away from Truman territory. At a dinner that followed, the former President, never averse to giving hell even to the press when it nettles him, outspokenly applauded the maestro...
Weaver has already launched a "Wise Old Men" series to bring such elders as Bertrand Russell, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Bernhard Berenson onto TV screens, and he likes to talk of whole future programs devoted to cultural events. But Weaver's principal preoccupation is still the problem of turning his gamble into a success among televiewers and advertisers...
...BERNHARD Soestdijk Palace The Netherlands
...fact that I did not have TIME, May 31, I missed seeing the piece [on Prince Bernhard's auto accident: "Trying to pass a road truck . . . he zigged when he should have zagged"]. I now am receiving [copies of it] from quite a few friends in the U.S. with a certain amount of biting comment, which I would gladly accept if it had been my fault. However, I enclose an eyewitness report (American), and in view of that, I don't think it is fair to write as you did, as it apparently gives me the reputation...
...Reports the U.S. Army's Lieut. Colonel Hugh G. Martin Jr., who happened to be driving behind Prince Bernhard's black Lincoln: "Close to 100 yds. ahead of my car was a large truck . . . The Lincoln was in the left lane of the highway about 15 yds. behind it attempting to pass, when the truck drifted slowly to the left without signaling. The driver of the Lincoln applied the brakes strongly . . . The truck continued to move to the left, [and] the Lincoln was forced off the highway with the left wheels going into the sand. The truck continued...