Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite-son gambit, in fact, has caught on in almost every key state. Besides Reagan, Tower and Kirk, the likely list now includes Ohio's James Rhodes, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, either Percy or Everett Dirksen in Illinois, Rockefeller or Jacob Javits in New York. Romney strategists, realizing that their candidate has to build first-ballot strength in the primaries, are planning intensive campaigns in four states: New Hampshire, Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin...
...Association hopes to get enough politicians interested to bring the matter to the attention of the Office of Education. Another politician they believe will be of help is Senator Jacob Javits...
That remark was ruled inadmissible evidence in his murder trial. For that matter, a great deal of the murky world of Jack Ruby was obscured in hearsay and uncertainty. The Warren Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February...
Seven years ago, the Ford Foundation gave Pianist Jacob Lateiner a $5,000 grant to commission a new work. "Being very lazy by nature," he explains, "I did not want to spend time learning a new piece that I could only play a few times because of its novelty. I wanted to strive for something, no matter how difficult it might be, that would be valuable decades from now." So Lateiner asked Elliott Carter, one of modern music's most original and complex composers, to write a piano concerto...
...Among them: the late James Rorimer, director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; Met Curators Theodore Rousseau and Jacob Bean; Museum of Modern Art Curator William Lieberman; Chicago Art Institute Director Charles Cunningham; National Gallery Director John Walker; Harvard's Fogg Art Museum Director John Coolidge; Fogg Assistant Director Agnes Mongan; Boston Museum of Fine Arts Director Perry Rathbone; Morgan Library's Curator Felice Stampfle; Toledo Museum Director Otto Wittman...