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Milestones

WON HONORED
A jackpot worth Julia Louis-
$1.537 billion, by a
Mega Millions ticket Dreyfus Queen
holder in South of comedy
Carolina on Oct. 23.
JulIa louIs-dreyfus has
WOUNDED
U.S. Army Brig. always wrung laughs
General Jeffrey out of the tiniest tics:
Smiley and a conspiratorial wink,
Zalmai Wesa, a repulsed grimace, an
the governor of incredulous stare. The
Kandahar province,
Afghanistan, in mere mental image of the
an attack at the convulsive dancing of her
governor’s compound excitable Seinfeld character,
on Oct. 18. Two Elaine Benes, can be enough
Afghan officials were to send a fan into hysterics.
killed in the attack.
In her current role, as
FREED the vain politician Selina
Japanese journalist Meyer on HBO’s Veep, the
Jumpei Yasuda, more 57-year-old actor dispenses
than three years after
he was captured by withering insults with a
militants in northern camera-ready grin.
Syria while reporting These performances have
on the civil war, Tokyo made Louis-Dreyfus the
confirmed Oct. 24. Meryl Streep of TV comedy.
Over the course of a career
AWARDED
Damages of that began on Saturday Night
$78.5 million to a Live in 1982, she has won
RONNEBERG: ANDREW COWIE— AF P/GET T Y IMAGES; LOUIS - DREYFUS: SCOT T SUCHMAN —THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
groundskeeper who eight acting Emmys—a feat
sued Monsanto, Ronneberg was initially reluctant to tell his story but began raising matched only by the great
arguing that its awareness of the dangers of war in the 1970s
Roundup weed killer Cloris Leachman. On Oct. 21,
gave him cancer. A DIED she added comedy’s most
Californian judge prestigious trophy, the Mark
rejected Monsanto’s Joachim Ronneberg Twain Prize for American
appeal but slashed Resistance fighter Humor, to her collection.
the $289 million
it was originally During a ceremony at
ordered to pay. It was a wInter nIght In 1943, and a 23-year-old norwe- the John F. Kennedy Center
gian fighter was gazing at his target: a hydroelectric power plant for the Performing Arts in
GRANTED in southern Norway where Nazi scientists were trying to develop Washington, D.C., Louis-
A building permit “heavy water.” Joachim Ronneberg knew the project was vital to Dreyfus cracked jokes on
for the Sagrada
Familia, Antoni Hitler’s war effort, but he learned only later that his actions that topics ranging from Brett
Gaudí’s legendary night likely thwarted the Nazis from developing an atomic bomb. Kavanaugh to her recent
Barcelona church, Ronneberg—who died Oct. 21 at the age of 99—led eight com- recovery from breast cancer.
as part of an Oct. 18 rades on a secret mission coordinated from Britain. They skied “Cancer isn’t at all funny,” she
deal, after 136 across a pine forest and crossed a mountain river before sneaking said. “But a big part of dealing
years of unlicensed
construction work. into the heavily guarded plant. They planted explosive charges with it has been finding the
Church trustees will inside the cylinder room, sending Nazi research for a nuclear funny parts.” —Judy Berman
pay $41 million to city weapon literally down the drain. The men then escaped into
authorities. neighboring Sweden, skiing 200 miles across southern Norway
with 3,000 German soldiers in pursuit.
OPENED
The world’s longest Ronneberg was the last surviving member of that team of
sea bridge, which saboteurs. He had been awarded high honors by Norway, Brit-
connects Hong ain and the U.S., and his exploits were immortalized in the 1965
Kong to Macau and film The Heroes of Telemark. He lamented the historical inaccura-
mainland China, on
Oct. 23. The bridge cies in that film and devoted his later years to telling his story to
spans 34 miles younger generations. “There is a lot of talk about ‘never again,’”
and cost about he told the New York Times in 2015. “But this is impossible if we
$20 billion. don’t remember what happened back then.”—BIlly PerrIgo
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