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...Physics-Isidor Isaac Rabi, 46, tousle-haired Columbia professor, born in Austria and raised in New York City, who is now on war leave at M.I.T.'s Radiation (electronics) Laboratory...
...Isaac Gilman, born in Russia, started peddling papers in the U.S. when he was 19. At 43 he bought an interest in a paper mill at Fitzdale, Vt. Five years later he was sole owner. The hamlet grew from four houses to a thriving, modern community of 1,100. In gratitude, it changed its name from Fitzdale to Gilman. Wages in the mills were high and there was never any labor trouble. Owner Gilman kept them running full time during depression, called his workers by their first names, took an interest in their personal affairs, footed many a doctor...
...Isaac Gilman was distressed because his model town had no churches. So he dug into his pocket, gave most of the money to build the Methodist Church ($28,000) and St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church ($15,000). St. Theresa's was soon self-sustaining, but Mr. Gilman gave several hundred dollars a year to the Methodists...
Last week, at 77, Isaac Gilman died. He was buried from Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El, of which he, a faithful Jew, was an active member. Said St. Theresa's Father William H. Cassidy: "He was a good...
Kuhlne and his neighbor, Isaac Ford, scraped together their ready cash, bought an ancient gasoline "logging donkey" and some secondhand cable. They hired a truck and a driver, and started salvaging...