Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scat to the Catskills. He was born David Daniel Kaminski, son of a Russian-born garment worker named Jacob Kaminski, on Brooklyn's Bradford Street. He soon learned that the only laughter in tenements is self-created, joined "social clubs" which put on amateur theatricals. Then he and a friend named Louis Eisen formed a harmony team...
...much do mothers know about sex? Manhattan Sociologist Jacob A. Goldberg, gathering research for a pamphlet to help parents answer their children's embarrassing questions, turned up some embarrassing facts...
...Witness Jacob Werber, German, remembered how he was "locked into a dog's cage, a chain was put around his neck, food was handed him in a bowl, and he had to eat like...
...John Jacob Astor, grandson of Mrs. William Astor, grande dame of the original Four Hundred, failed to make the grade. But ex-Wife Ellen Tuck French Astor made it, so did half-brother Vincent...
Goateed, greying, ace Soviet diplomat Jacob Surits has a habit of popping up in key spots. He was at Geneva in 1939 when the League of Nations prepared to expel Russia for the war with Finland. As Soviet Ambassador to France in 1940, Surits was declared persona non grata for cabling home harsh criticism of "Anglo-French warmongers." Last week the U.S.S.R. had named him their first Ambassador to Brazil, where the Communists had rolled up an unexpected 600,000-odd votes in the recent elections...