Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peevish old Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who gets more respectable as the years go by, was not surprised when a committee of distinguished fellow Britons unanimously selected him as the man best qualified to create a memorial to South Africa's late Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts. Said he: "I deserve...
...candidates, there were several interesting also-rans. Democrat Averell Harriman, still active in New York politics, was scratched on a technicality-he lives outside the city. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan is a Democrat who finds favor with Republicans, especially with his old boss Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Congressman Jacob K. Javits is a Republican well-liked by Liberals and Democrats, but apparently out of step with leaders of his own party, especially with Tom Dewey...
...drawing board last week in the Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 544,784), Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Jacob Burck, 49, was going over the proofs of a cartoon for next day's paper. It showed the grasping hand of Soviet power being squeezed open by rebellious satellite citizens as they desperately tried to escape (title: "Losing His Grip?"). Just as he was finishing with the proof, the phone rang. On the line was a reporter from the rival Chicago Daily News. He told Burck that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service had just ordered him deported on the grounds that...
...Times Publisher Marshall Field Jr. backed up his cartoonist, and so did the Post-Dispatch in an editorial: "The idea that Jacob Burck should be banished behind the Iron Curtain is nothing less than preposterous . . . There is nothing 'subversive' whatever about his metropolitan daily newspaper cartooning, which now dates back more than 16 years. Assume that he realized his error and . . . sincerely changed his affiliation . . . Should the U.S. then not want to reclaim him as it has . . . others who saw their mistake...
...Soviet Foreign Ministry moved to meet the new situation by an ingathering of ambassadors. From Washington came Georgy N. Zarubin, from London Jacob A. Malik, from Paris Alexei P. Pavlov, from Berlin Vladimir S. Semenov. At week's end they were in conference with Deputy Premier Molotov and other Soviet leaders. Whatever counteroffensive they worked out, it would be for the defense of Moscow, and the fighting as tough as the battles of Borodino...