Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Jacob Niles entered and retired from the hall to the din of a reverent ovation, and that made him happy. For Niles was obviously pleased to be at Harvard, to "step temporarily out of retirement," to "peer into the bright, charming, and eager faces" that surrounded him, and relive once again the ballads and love songs that have been his life...
...Washington's most fashionable genre artists, chic Lady Caccia, wife of departing British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia, unveiled a favorite essay in oils. Setting of the painting: the swimming pool at the rented Virginia summer estate of New York's Senator Jacob Javits. Lady Caccia's model: the spouse of Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper, sun-shy Lorraine Cooper, who totes a pastel parasol even when campaigning with her husband in the backwoods...
Pushing ahead with its gambling probe (TIME, Sept. 1), the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations got satisfaction of a sort out of Thomas F. Kelly Sr., boss of a Chicago race-wire service, who was helped into office by the likes of Jacob ("Little Jack") Guzik. Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo. and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Charging that one of Kelly's underlings had been driven to a suicide attempt by efforts to prevent him from testifying, the subcommittee chairman, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, wondered aloud if the bulky, balding Chicagoan were not "the lowest scum of humanity...
...Fordham Law School, a city judgeship under Fiorello La Guardia, and a successful private practice, has served 4½ years as a hard-working state attorney general. Elated by the rift in Democratic ranks, New York City's feeble G.O.P. tried first to get either liberal Senator Jacob Javits or personable young Representative John Lindsay to run for mayor. Both refused; the party finally settled on Lawyer Lefkowitz, and picked running mates to produce a ticket that sounds like three parts of a Notre Dame backfield: Lefkowitz, Fino and Gilhooley. The G.O.P. campaign, based mostly on the possibility that...
...committee for Israel's new Jerusalem Museum of Art, he announced that he had persuaded U.S. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz to bequeath 300 original plasters to the museum.* Last week he announced another coup. While lunching in London a month ago, he said, he asked the widow of Sculptor Jacob Epstein just what her U.S.-born husband would have done with his 200-odd original plasters had he known that Rose was gathering works for the ambitious museum in Israel. "Give them to you," said Lady Epstein, and in Sir Jacob's name...