Word: founder
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Although he headed Lockhart Iron and Steel Co. (founded by his father, who was also a co-founder of Standard Oil Co.), looked like Andrew Mellon and had a finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia...
...with the analyst's interpretation. Whether or not this psychoanalytic version is "truer," it sometimes succeeds in shattering the patient's preconceptions, in opening his mind to other alternatives of thought and action. Thus, in reviewing Jewish history, legends and attitudes, Freud very provocatively suggests: Moses, the founder of the Jewish religion, was no Jew, but an Egyptian...
They were designed by famed Bauhaus-founder Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. They will stand on stilts over a lake (see cut), will be modernist in style. Besides classrooms, a library, laboratories, shops, offices, the buildings will include two-room apartments for teachers, rooms for 120 students. Each student will have a private study but share a bedroom. Most unusual aspect of the plans is the buildings' compactness, for compact community life...
Thus died Mexico's ace aviator, founder-president of one of Mexico's biggest native-owned airlines (TIME, June 5). At Franklin Roosevelt's order, the body was returned to Mexico in one of the U. S. Army's big Boeing bombers...
...took root in the U. S. and Canada long before Founder Williams died. Its American backers, beginning 50 years ago, did far more than those of any other nation to extend its work throughout the world. They also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...