Word: dorfman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stock in trade of most special pleaders, who now blatantly showed the name of the only potential enemy in sight, a practice not considered good manners at the start of the year. Only a few of 1946's substantial histories were wholly above the battle, among them Joseph Dorfman's two-volume The Economic Mind in American Civilization (1606-1865); Sylvanus G. Morley's The Ancient Maya. In a class by itself was Yale Professor F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, a study of international cultures...
...Bless the Corporal. "Between all this work and discussion, I can assure you my sins and omissions loomed very large. They only had the effect of making me sure I was in no position to meet my Maker. My prayers were most earnest. I asked Corporal Dorfman (this was his first flight) whether he was saying his prayers and he said he had been praying for two hours. He asked me to write something on his khaki trousers. We had written on all our trousers phone instructions to follow when we landed, and I wrote the only thing that came...
...pilot, in what order he wanted us to jump. I was going to suggest drawing straws, when Corporal Peter Foley, with great Irish dignity, asked for the privilege of going first. I was prepared to go first, if occasion called, but none of us denied Foley the honor. Dorfman, we decided, was to go second because he wanted me to stand back of him and push him if he lost his nerve. Then I got in line, then Kronk, the engineer-leaving Junod still at the controls. We were at 7,400 ft., and about 1,000 ft. above...
Broadway's press agents divide into four classes. There are those who work for one boss, as does portly John Peter Toohey for Sam H. Harris and courtly Claude P. Greneker for the Shuberts. There are smart free lances, such as Willard Keefe, Nat Dorfman, Karl Bernstein, eight or ten others. There are the in-&-outers (some on the way up, some on the way out). And there is Irish-tongued, Scotch-drinking Richard Maney, who is a whole industry in himself...