Word: genial
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After three years as U.S. naval attache in Rumania, genial Captain Eugene-("Fish") Karpe, 45, was on his way home for reassignment. At Vienna, the burly former destroyer commander visited the wife and sister-in-law of his old friend and fellow Annapolisman, Robert Vogeler, the American businessman jailed as a spy by Communist Hungary (TIME, Feb. 27). Mrs. Vogeler gave him her husband's silver lighter-"to keep until you can give it back to Bob." Then Captain Karpe boarded the blue-and-gold Arlberg-Orient Express for Paris...
...Genial Swiss Theologian Karl Earth added a cubit or two to his international stature by denouncing Hitler in 1933, when most good Christians were waiting to see how events would turn out. But Earth's postwar casualness about Communism's threat to Christianity has puzzled many a Protestant. In this week's Christian Century, the Rev. Hendrik Hauge, chaplain to Norway's famed Bishop Berggrav, attacks Earth's present political position...