Word: goldsmith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johann Gutenberg was born of well-to-do parents in the Archbishopric of Mainz, Germany. Details of his life, early as well as late, are sketchy, but he apparently trained as a goldsmith and/or gem cutter and then became a partner in a printing shop in Strasbourg...
...time he was back in Mainz in 1448, Gutenberg had ironed out enough of these problems to persuade Johann Fust, a goldsmith and lawyer, to invest heavily in his new printing shop. Exactly what happened behind Gutenberg's closed doors during the next few years remains unknown. But in 1455 visitors to the Frankfurt Trade Fair reported having seen sections of a Latin Bible with two columns of 42 lines each printed--printed--on each page. The completed book appeared about a year later; it did not bear its printer's name, but it eventually became known as the Gutenberg...
...Deke was the jock house all right, but this was no Mississippi State," says Deke member J.P. Goldsmith, who was a year behind Bush at Yale. "Every body could read and write, everybody could wear a neck-tie and everybody went to class...
Perhaps the gerbils being shot out of a cannon or the pack of wolves attacking the high school band distracted him. Because no matter how often Marvin Goldsmith has chuckled at these offbeat TV commercials for Outpost.com an online computer seller, he's still not sure what the website does...
...Goldsmith doesn't have to understand ads to profit from them. All he has to do, as president of sales and marketing at the ABC television network, is sell lots of 30-sec. slots. And now that dot.coms are caught up in a frenzied race to make their brands widely known outside cyberspace, his job has never been easier. "We're attracting people we haven't even heard of," says Goldsmith, who has raked in $200 million in Net-related ads this year. "You can't match the reach of network...