Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bronstein, who came to the U.S. from Russia at 14, started out by selling newspapers. Once when he saw the late great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, leave the old Southern Hotel, Sammy pretended not to know him and dogged him all the way to the office, insisting that he buy a Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer was so impressed by his salesmanship that he put him on a $2.50-a-week retainer as a newsboy...
Died. Henri J. Revilliod, 83, physician, longtime president of Switzerland's Moral and Social Hygiene Cartel, founder of dispensaries for the treatment of alcoholism in Montreux and Geneva, son-in-law of Czechoslovakia's late great founder and first President, Thomas G. Masaryk, brother-in-law of the late Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk; in Manhattan...
...spent a lifetime collecting this treasure-trove was a proud, bantam-sized Catalan who exploded onto the political scene in 1901 as founder of a Catalan regionalist party, rose to fame as an ardent spokesman for Catalonian autonomy. Hand in hand with Cambo's political success went his reputation as a financial wizard and "the Andrew Mellon of Spain." When Cambo's political party went down to defeat at the polls on the verge of Spain's civil war, Cambo wisely decamped, ended up in Buenos Aires, where he lived handsomely on the returns of his insurance...
...consultant was equally impressed with the program itself and its founder, W. Barton Leach '21, Story Professor of Law. He reported favorably to the trustees. Three months later Leach received $214,800--enough to place the program on solid ground after a shaky first year...
...other cities have already asked to set up chapters. Courage's President Philip Guba, 35, a corporation lawyer who caught polio in Indonesia 2½years ago, is currently working with Courage's 21 directors to broaden the organization. Their goal: a nationwide Courage, Inc. As for Founder Cayley, she has become a practicing psychiatrist, although still confined to a wheelchair, and at 53 is busier than ever. She now drives her own car, leads an active social life. Once the women's long-distance swimming champion of Hungary, she can still swim a three-quarter-mile...