Word: jahn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star. Geneviève Bujold, who first caught the eye of moviegoers with a bit part in Alain Resnais's La Guerre Est Finie (TIME, Feb. 3, 1967), has the kind of fragile, elfin charm and doe-eyed allure that wins without wanting to. The name is pronounced Jahn-vee-jev Boo-johld. It is a name to remember...
...Jahn is a European (nationality not specified) who has sailed his small ketch to what is presumably Nova Scotia or the Gaspe Peninsula, in order to spend a year testing some mining theories. Maria is the crippled daughter of the customs officer, a wise, learned man who has been paralyzed for 20 years. The young people cannot marry while Maria's father is alive, nor can they let him know that his life is thus a burden. The action of the book be gins as Jahn and his small crew set sail again for Europe. Maria gives...
...structure is ancient but remarkably sturdy. Since the author's book is a "tale" and not a novel, it is perfectly proper that his true lovers are slightly unreal in an old-fashioned way, rather than, as is now customary, slightly unreal in a modern way. Jahn and Maria speak to each other not in ping-pong dialogue but in fine, prosy paragraphs; they are oftener apart than together; they love honor more. And the reader, to his surprise, may find that he likes them this...
With his chain growing at the rate of three new restaurants a month, Jahn has built three small factories to produce "Viennese interiors" and another to manufacture automatic spits. He also started a six-story chick hatchery in Bavaria. (But he still buys most of his birds from the U.S., which supplies Germany with $30 million worth of frozen chicken a year.) Jahn has opened Wienerwald restaurants in Belgium, Austria and The Netherlands, will soon branch into Switzerland...
Last year Jahn grossed $15 million and enjoyed a net of $375,000. Though his Wienerwald menu still consists mostly of chicken in ten different ways, he recently introduced an 85? beefsteak. "Man does not live by chicken alone," he says. Jahn himself, having seen so much of it all day long, eats chicken at home only once every few months...