Word: edwin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and coordinator of the Institute fund-raising drive, said yesterday that he was "delighted" with the gift. "Such a contribution is especially appreciated when one considers that the Japanese economy has been terribly shocked by the oil crisis," he added...
...September 1972, the program was a bleak expose of failings in privately administered group-pension plans. Workers told of losing all or most of their pension income through a variety of misfortunes: pre-retirement dismissals, company closings or mergers, the collapse of pension funds because of mismanagement. Correspondent Edwin Newman, who was co-author of the script with NBC Producer David Schmerler, noted near the end of the hour-long broadcast that "there are many good" pension plans. But his conclusion was downbeat: "The situation, as we've seen it, is deplorable...
...Dewhurst played a jailer's daughter in an off-Broadway revival of Edwin Mayer's 1930 Children of Darkness. Appearing opposite her was a young actor named George C. Scott.Their meeting, which Scott later described as a "bus accident," led to divorces from their spouses and their own marriage in 1959. They bought an 18th century farmhouse in South Salem, N.Y., combining acting with raising a family. In 1963, while Scott was filming The Bible in Italy, he encountered Ava Gardner, and the marriage to Dewhurst dissolved. Four years later, Scott and Dewhurst remarried. In 1971, however, Scott...
...Edwin L. Godkin, former editor of the New York Evening Post and of the Nation, initiated the Godkin lectures in 1903 and provided money for the annual Godkin lecture series...
Harvard plans to use proceeds from the endowed grant to develop the proposed $15 million Japan Institute. Edwin O. Reischauer, university professor and former U.S. ambassador to Japan, is heading the drive to fund the institute...