Word: hylan
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Besides Cox, who was U.S. Solicitor General from 1961 to 1965, the commission's members were Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of Harvard's University Health Services, two lawyers--Anthony G. Amsterdam and Simon H. Rifkind--and Hylan G. Lewis, professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College...
Some of the entries suggest that Spook-Spotter Mader is a bit out-of-date. He has Dr. Peter Howard Selz as curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a post he left three years ago for the University of California. He lists William Henry Hylan as a CBS network vice president; Hylan went to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963 and has been there ever since. August Heckscher appears as a writer on the New York Herald Tribune; Heckscher, now New York City parks commissioner, left the Trib in 1956, and the newspaper closed down...
...Whalen grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side, earned his first pennies by lighting Sabbath fires for Jewish families at 5? a fire. By 1918, he had risen to an executive job at Wanamaker's department store, left to become secretary to newly elected Mayor John Hylan. His first big assignment: the welcoming arrangements for returning U.S. doughboys...