Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent had been the summons that Jacob Surits, suave, goateed Soviet Ambassador to Brazil, remembered only after boarding the plane that he had to be in Rio for the big Embassy reception on Nov. 7. At Belém he turned back for Rio, set off again for the U.S. after the party. His mission, like that of other Soviet diplomats in Latin America*: to get orders from Foreign Minister Molotov. For Molotov it was a chance to take stock of the first year and a half of the new Stalinist line in Latin America...
...prolonged voting session requiring eight ballots and recounts resulted last night in the selection of Edwin J. Jacob '47 to the presidency of the Debate Council's executive committee. Jacob replaces Munroe S. Singer '47, who resigned after a six-months tenure to complete his Senior academic requirements...
...lobby of the Manchester Guardian's smoke-grimed Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...There was more hope for victims of the excruciating pain resulting from angina pectoris and some types of cancer. St. Louis' Surgeon Roland M. Klemme reported a new technique of cutting certain sympathetic nerves in the chest, which stops angina pain without harmful effects; Chicago's Surgeon Jacob P. Greenhill said that a similar operation on abdominal sympathetic nerves often gives permanent relief from pain in cancer of the uterus and other pelvic organs. Also effective: an alcohol injection in the spine...
...Last Laugh. In Worthington, Ind., Jacob Bailey walked into a restaurant, jokingly ordered a steak, got it, fell dead...