Word: founder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph Papp, né Papirofsky, 37, floor manager for I've Got a Secret and other CBS-TV programs, founder and producer of New York City's nonprofit Shakespeare Festival, balked at saying whether he was a party member before February 1955. CBS fired...
Members of Harvard's first class included Henry Saltonstall, son of the founder of the Massachusetts clan, and Sir George Downing, who signed on as a ship's schoolmaster after graduation, arrived in England and soon became a confidential operative for Cromwell. His historical distinctions: he built the street on which Britain's Prime Ministers live, and a clerk in his office. Samuel Pepys, made sarcastic references to him in his diary...
...shuffle of one man toward salvation at a recent London meeting has been the talk of the Army ever since. And the welfare state, with its complex of psychiatric and rehabilitation centers, prompts the downtrodden to turn to government instead of God. Said General Wilfred Kitching, son of Founder Booth's secretary and now head of the Army, in his opening address: "Antiquated methods must be set aside, unproductive activities abandoned, and new strategies examined...
...rapturous cheers of 1,500 well-wishers from 62 countries, ever-beaming Ideologist Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement, celebrated his 80th birthday by presiding over the gathering of his clan at M.R.A.'s Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer training center. Between speeches of praise from devotees, Buchman pored over laudatory messages from (among others) West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines, and 20 U.S. Senators...
...English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind of noble but dull character who is ready to give those in need the stuffed shirt off his back...