Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pages of orders of the day. Just opposite Westminster Abbey rose tier on tier of seats for those willing to pay $15 to $75 for a closeup view. An official tersely admitted that, so far, there is "nothing like a rush" to buy, and advertisements have been placed in German, Italian and French newspapers in the hope of unloading tickets on foreigners...
Into print last weekend burst a pair of nonprofessional writers: Army 2nd Lieut. Peter Dawlcins, West Point's All-America halfback in 1958, now a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and German-born Scientist Wernher von Braun, one of the top U.S. missile scientists. In The New York Times Magazine, Dawkins compared U.S. and British attitudes toward collegiate sports ("We Play to Win, They Play for Fun"). In This Week Magazine, Rocketeer von Braun presented Part One of a serialized novel titled Life on Mars. But professional writers needed to read only the leads and relax. Dawkins starts...
Bierstadt's father had been a German professional soldier before coming to the U.S., and courtly young Albert himself had studied in Germany. In 1858 he decided to head for St. Louis to join General Frederick Landers' mapping expedition to the Pacific. The paintings he did along the way made him famous. His big (6 ft. by 10 ft.) Landers' Peak, Rocky Mountains was sold for $25.000; his Storm in the Rocky Mountains (12 ft. by 7 ft.) brought $35,000. British critics raved about him ("as devoted a lover of the grandest scenes in nature...
...figure in the upper echelon of Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives me trouble all the time with his lists of names and his petitions for mercy. What a crew! Dutch. Jewish and German traitors. I don't know why I go on putting up with...
...Economist argues that U.S. admen should restyle their views of Britain so that the British can compete with the image of gaiety and color that surrounds French products and the "efficiency treatment'' given to German wares. Oddly enough, most of the Economist's criticisms seemed to be directed not against some U.S. admen with a happy ignorance of today's welfare-state Britain but against a transplanted. British-born adman who knows very well what he is up to. David Ogilvy. president of Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, creator of the bearded snobbery of the Schweppes tonic...