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Mayer went West in 1918, just after the first wave of Hollywood pioneers. He had been on the move since his threadbare family left its Cossack-ridden Ukrainian village in the late 1880s and a few years later settled in St. John, New Brunswick. There his father Jacob Mayer struggled as a junkman. Little Louie, half starved, battled anti-Semitic bullies and helped his father--whom he despised as much as he adored his mother. Escaping St. John in his late teens, he moved on to Boston, where he discovered the Nickelodeon, the embryo of the moving-picture business. Quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUIS B. MAYER: Lion Of Hollywood | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...person Harvard team was composed of: Shearwood "Woody" McClelland '00, Daniel J. Benjamin '99, Jacob Chudnovsky '01, Nicholas J. Proudfoot '00, Jonathan A. Wolff...

Author: By John P. Posch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Routs Yale In Chess Tourney | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Instead, Mulyar will face Harvard's Jacob Chudnovsky '01 over the Internet...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Tries to Check Yale | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

Stephen A. Jacob, a first-year student at KSG,echoed Okike's reaction. "He encapsulated thefeeling of the Civil Rights movement, which he wassuch an integral part of. It's so important to beat this sort of event...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rep. Lewis Recounts Civil Rights Movement | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

What has happened to our beloved U.S.? Sex and money seem to be the main things that matter. Aren't they symptoms of decadence? We in Europe are rattled as well as astonished. HANS-JACOB HEITZ Winterthur, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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