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...sidewalks of Brooklyn, one of ten children of an immigrant tailor. He left school at age 13, became a steam fitter and spent his idle hours hanging around New York race tracks. He sidled into training and did so well that he caught the eye of one Colonel Isidor Bieber, a high roller and Broadway ticket broker. Bieber asked Jacobs to be his trainer and partner, and the pairing was to last more than 40 years...
...Isidor Feinstein Stone, the irrepressible godfather of New Left journalism, has finally decided to slow down a bit. Last week, in a form letter that began "Dear Friend and Subscriber," he announced that his pungent, polemic four page newsletter, I.F. Stone's Bi-Weekly (TIME, Feb. 8), would close down at the end of this month after a 19-year...
...owlish little man minces few words. To Isidor Feinstein Stone, Richard Nixon is a "banal and shallow man," and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird "Washington's biggest liar since John Foster Dulles." As for John Mitchell: "Nothing is more dangerous than weak men who think they are tough guys...
...Isidor Isaac Rabi, SC.D., Nobel Prize physicist...
Last week Minneapolis Symphony Concertmaster Isidor Saslav acquired a new title: he is now the Elbert L. Carpenter Concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony. It makes him sound more like a university professor than a violinist - and there's the point. Borrowing a bit of academic fund-raising technique, the orchestra announced that it will establish 19 permanently endowed chairs, one for the principal player of each major instrument. Saslav's will be endowed by retired Minneapolis Lumber Executive Leonard G. Carpenter in honor of his late father, a founder of the orchestra. Minimum price tag for the plan...