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Word: isidore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bestowed on Newhouse the title of "journalistic chiffonnier"?a French word that means "ragpicker." While Newhouse was angling for Portland's evening daily, the Oregon Journal (he hooked it last year), David Eyre, then the Journal's managing editor, pointedly referred to him in print as Samuel ISIDOR New-house." (Newhouse is indeed of Jewish descent, but his middle initial stands for nothing at all.) Last week, inspired in part by Newhouse's acquisition of New Orleans and in part by an ambition to make headlines, Democratic U.S. Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn announced that the House Judiciary Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Newspaper Collector Samuel Newhouse | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

Does the nature of their research exempt scientists from the compulsion to stand by? Men like Hans Bethe, Ralph Lapp, Isidor Rabi and others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Outlook at Geneva | 3/15/1962 | See Source »

...worth of silk damask wall coverings and 18th century candelabra, imported eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino czar, to preside over his remodeled Pandemonium. Since by English law the house has no legal redress when a gambler's check bounces, Abbecassis was hired mainly for his intimate knowledge of Britain's better-heeled bettors. "These Frenchies." says Holland, "have card-indexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Pandemonium Revisited | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

...million to test no fewer than 50,000 potential cancer-fighting drugs. That measures the size of the job in achieving the chemotherapist's dream: an effective cure for the major forms of the disease. Last week the physician who treated President Eisenhower's ileitis, Dr. Isidor S. Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, pulled together and appraised the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drugs Against Cancer | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...Isidor Isaac Rabi, 62, became a scientist, he says, for one overpowering reason: "I couldn't help it." Brought to the U.S. from Austria as an infant, he has never forgotten his mother's daily query when he came home from public school on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "Did you ask any good questions today?" For a brief period Rabi (rhymes with hobby) did try the workaday world outside the laboratory?he analyzed furniture polish and mothers' milk; he ran a Brooklyn newspaper until it failed?"then came the vision, I found physics and myself." His experiments in molecular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: THE MEN ON THE COVER: U.S. Scientists | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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