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...Polish girl who rose from a governess to the world's greatest woman scientist. Famed for her hard-won discovery of radium, Madame Curie here emerges as most deserving of fame for her incorruptible stand against cashing in on it. Known for an emotional self-discipline as strict asher public reserve, her response to the accidental death of her husband-collaborator is told in one of the most affecting and dramatic scenes in the biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Headed by Captain Asher Lans, a delegation of ten Indians, New Hampshire brand, will arrive in Cambridge at or about 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon for the annual fall punchbowl classic between editors of the Daily Dartmouth and the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON MEETS DAILY DARTMOUTH TEAM HERE | 10/21/1937 | See Source »

Married. Laura La Plante, cinemactress; and Irving Asher, director of the Warner Bros. London studio; in Paris. A witness: onetime Mayor of New York James John ("Jimmy") Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 2, 1934 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...Hartley Burr Alexander (Scripps College, California), Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter (Dean of Northwestern Medical School), Law Dean Roscoe Pound (Harvard). On Wisconsin's staff Dr. Hicks will be in the good company of Experimentalist Alexander Meiklejohn, Law Dean Lloyd Garrison, Agricultural College Dean Chris Lauriths Christenson, Agriculture Professor Asher Hobson, all acquired by Wisconsin since Dr. Frank became president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Western Shift | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...first printed code of orthodox Jewish life was published a quarter-century after the Gutenberg Bible (1452). It was Rabbi Jacob 'ben Asher's famed Arba Turim (Code of the Jews). For five centuries it disappeared from the sight of orthodox Jews. Lately it was found in Italy bearing on its Hebraic pages three visas of papal inquisitioners who had examined it for heresies. Last week it was taken to Manhattan and placed in the Jewish Theological Seminary. It was purchased with funds (of concealed volume) donated by Theatrical Producer Abraham Lincoln Erlanger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Arba Turim | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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