Word: hymans
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STANTON: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LINCOLN'S SECRETARY OF WAR (643 pp.)-Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman-Knopf...
Historian Benjamin P. Thomas was completing his research for a definitive biography of Stanton when he died in 1956. Harold M. Hyman, 37, a historian at U.C.L.A., took Thomas' research, added to it, and wrote Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary...
Tolerant Giraffe. At first. Hyman seems to be joining the Stanton haters. He cheerfully reports that Stanton was possessed of a "wily versatility in ingratiating himself simultaneously with men of widely divergent views," and was more than willing to advance his career by setting his sail to catch the political winds. There is even evidence. Hyman admits, that Stanton connived to discredit his predecessor so that he could...
...year investigation of television. First man to step up to the microphone, according to the script, was to be CBS's suave President Dr. Frank Stanton. But in a prologue that could turn into a theme, the FCC first put on the stand one of its economists, Dr. Hyman H. Goldin, who in staggering detail spun out the story of network TV's rich growth from earnings of $9,900,000 in 1952 to $95,200,000 in 1960. The implication seemed clear: With all that money, why should not TV-under FCC guidance-spend a lot more...
...Captains and the Kings, loosely pegged on the career of the famed Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, departed after seven performances...