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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came around and offered us about half what our house is worth. We called the real estate company, and they wouldn't even accept our listing." Mrs. Robert Ettinger, an engineer's wife, who moved over from Evanston after Negroes moved into the neighborhood, chimed in with word that the Ettingers had "taken a terrible licking" on the price of their Evanston house...
Dinner guests at the Soviet embassy spread the word that the cuisine and cellar were excellent. Mme. Vinogradov, an amateur painter herself, began encouraging young French artists to drop around, even abstractionists, whose decadent works would never find favor in Moscow. And soon columnists were speculating on which London tailor the ambassador might be patronizing...
...Ashes. Ever since. Communists have contended that the fire was deliberately set by the Nazis themselves to justify snuffing out political freedom in Germany, and their contention has been widely accepted. But recently, West Germany's enterprising weekly newsmagazine, Der Spiegel, has been publishing a 60,000-word series of articles based on three years of research by its staff. Its contention: Van der Lubbe did it alone after all. Der Spiegel pictures him as a warped idealist of more than ordinary intelligence whose strange courtroom behavior-alternately listless or roaring with laughter-resulted from "many months in solitary...
...last bullet was successfully removed from Kassem's left arm one day last week, and the Premier, clad in pajamas and silk dressing gown, strolled about the hospital. Once again, as it has before, word spread that Kassem would be out of the hospital "in a few days...
...made the audience laugh almost every time he opened his mouth, particularly at his first-act entrance, when he was bundled in fluttery finery and carried a small live pig (rubber diapered) under his arm. Whatever critics thought of the rest of the performance, no one had an unkind word for Walter. Said he: "Maybe the Met should apologize to me for the mixed reviews; I came out shining like a rose...