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Show Family IVaalcly j December 29, 1963 the University of Heidelberg for their joint study on the construction of the atomic nucleus). A mother of two, she is the first woman to win the physics prize since Madame Curie in 1903. Her comment when told the King of Sweden would award her the prize, worth about $12,000: "Good. I've always wanted to meet a king." 57-year-- old woman hopes to marry someday." When that day came, it was a spectacular one covered by Moscow television. Acting as big daddy (fathers of the couple were killed in the war) was Nikita Khrushchev, who proposed 20 or 21 toasts (reporters lost count but noted that Nikita only sips these days) and quipped: May the marriage be a long one. May you have radar to avoid all the obstacles of life." Tfc. i - MR. AND MRS. ANDREW ),J FISCHER Dr. James N. Berbos kept picking, up several fetal heartbeats in his patient, Mrs. Andrew Fischer of Aberdeen S. D. "I suspected that she might have triplets," he recalls. and discovered So he ordered that he was treating a 54,000,000-to-- 1 patient. Mrs. Fischer was carrying quintuplets. Three days later, on Sept 14, Dr. Berbos delivered four girls and a son to Mrs. Fischer, already the mother of five, within ," said 72 minutes. the doctor. Mr. Fischer, a shipping clerk, and his wife seemed to agree but mostly because of the dizzyfrom ing surge of President Kennedy to promoters wanting the quints to sell their products. Before the family could even name the fivesome, they had a popular label They were "The -Dollar Babies," a conservative estimate on how much they will make as America's new darlings. X-ra- ys "Nerve-wracking- well-wishe- rs, Million- TV. m. Mm' SANDY KOUFAX Interesting people are beset people. Sandy Koufax, lefty star of the Los Angeles Dodgers, wanted to be a basketball player; baseball scouts grabbed him because he could throw so hard (without any idea where the ball would go). When Sandy mastered control pitching, he incurred a finger injury, and doctors feared they might have to amputate. But in 1963 Sandy came back with strike-ou- t records and a no-h- it game. In September, the Dodgers-S- t. Louis series was the pennant-decidin- g one but, alas, Sandy's turn on the mound fell on the Jewish New Year. Solomonlike manager Walt Alston pitched Sandy out of turn, and the fireballer sent the Dodgers toward a World Series sweep over the Yankees with a stunning shutout. Headlined a Los Angeles newspaper: "HAPPY NEW YEAR, SANDY!" At last it was. 1. mostly why he pronounced his name "Hume." The story goes that a battling Scottish ancestor (the Home family dates back to the l$th century) tried to rally his warriors with the cry, "For Home! For Home!" The followers misunderstood and ran home. Since then the Homes have wondered preferred mispronunciation to dis- honor. Beneath Sir Alec's bland exterior, however, courses- - that same fighting blood. Reluctant to take the job at first, Sir Alec, once committed, survived a bitter political struggle against far more ambitious leaders. When word of his victory leaked out from party headquarters, London crowds shouted:. "It's Home! It's Home!" this time nobody misunderstood. r f ' Jessica Mitford comes from a ble English family noted for getting people's hackles up. Her father, for instance, stirred British tempers by sympathizing with Hitler. Jessica's contribution to family tradition is book, "The this year's best-selliAmerican Way of Death," which studies alleged overcommercializa-tio- n in the undertaking industry. (The cost of living, she says, rose 71 percent since World War II while the cost of dying rose 100 percent) Clergymen largely praised the book for exposing "pagan customs and trappings," but undertakers mourned that Miss Mitford had castigated them with inaccurate statistics and unfair interpretations. Congressman James B. Utt went further. He accused Miss Mitford of "Communist-froactivities" and striking "another blow at Christian religion." Her reply: "Red herring." ankle-leng- th Val-enti- na reporters questions about her rumored romance by saying, "Every DOUGLAS-HOM- E He started the year as Lord Home, British foreign secretary, and ended it as Sir Alec Douglas-Homprime minister, having given up his noble title for a seat in the House of Commons. By any name, he seemed a tepid cup of English tea to Americans, who this "rubbery lion" bend to the ambitions of Charles DeGauIIe who wants to increase France's influence in western Europe at the expense of the U. S.? Erhard lost no time in knocking the "national egotism" typified by Le Grand Charles. It reminded NATO leaders of a previous observation by Herr Erhard: "I am an American invention." . I? f i ng ANDRIAN AND VALENTINA SIR ALEC Would ly. JESSICA MITFORD nt gown, double veil, gloves, roses. The groom was so calm he helped his tearful bride slip a plain gold band on his finger. The couple: Soviet cosmonette Valen-tin- a Tereshkova, 26, and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, 34. had previously dodged good-natured- , (R.-Cali- f.) The bride wore white: Gemutlichkeit who smokes Brazilian cigars, works with Beethoven music in the background, and drinks champagne and beer. But West Germans wondered if an uncle figure like Ludwig Erhard, a fervent anti-Na- zi handpicked by American occupation forces to revive his nation's economy, would make a firm chancellor. One who doubted it was Konrad Adenauer, who at 88 was reluctantly turning over the post to Erhard. "A rubbery lion," Der Alte used to call him and Ludi took the abuse h3 : ,-- e, LUDWIG ERHARD "Onkle Ludi" looks like a Dutch uncle 220 pounds of rosy-cheek- ed POPE PAUL VI Giovanni Cardinal Montini chose the name Paul when he succeeded the late Pope John XX111 as supontiff of the Roman Catho-preme srm uc nurcn. u was a signurcssii choice. The question had been whether the new pope would carry on John's dream of aperturismo an "opening" of the church to new ideas of the modern world. The name Paul hinted of the new pope's direction it was St. Paul who recognized the universality of the teachings of Jesus and carried Christianity beyond the confines of a Palestinian sect. John had dreamed that the Christianity spread by Paul could once more find a type of unity, and Pope Paul VI lost no time in assuring the world that he succeeded to this ideal as well as to the Chair of Peter. He said: "I long to make mine the wish that spontaneously and generously welled up in the hearts of my predecessors, especially John XXIII: come, let the barriers that separate us fall!" m " mm m ( Continued on page 6) Family Weekly, December 29, 1963 5 |
