Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Private Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, playful great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, sued his wife for divorce while he sweated out a sentence, his second, for going AWOL. The wife: Cafe Society Character Lenore Lemmon, who married him in 1941 and abruptly went home to mother crying that he was tattooed from head to foot. Jakie's divorce charge: she was AWOL...
...Francisco in a supernumerary job: in charge of illustration for the West Coast papers. George just likes photography is the way Hearstlings say it. John Randolph (Jack), 35, handles promotion projects (ranging from essay contests to Youth for Christ) in New York, as assistant to general manager Jacob Gortatowsky. Captain Randolph Apperson (Randy), 30, prewar assistant publisher of the San Francisco Call-Biilletin, will probably get a western Hearstpaper when he leaves the A.A.F...
Last week Iconoclast Johnson, now 70, retired. His successor-"a man after my own heart"-is another farm boy: lean, 49-year-old Brynjolf Jacob (Bryn J. for short) Hovde (rhymes with loved a). Bryn J. has, among other things, toured ,the Chautauqua lecture circuit, taught at the University of Pittsburgh-where he got into more than one ruckus because his politics were to the left of the trustees' -and run the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation. Says he: "I like to think of a university as a storm center. I like people to take...
Coming Attraction. In Newark, Jacob Goldis, 69, bought a coffin, tombstone and plot, called a rabbi, invited 40 friends to a dress rehearsal of his funeral...
...coffeemen yelped even louder. Jacob Rosenthal, head of the Joint Coffee Pro motion Committee and onetime coffee consultant to OPA, called the subsidy "utterly fantastic." In order to buy any coffee at all, he said, U.S. buyers have been paying as much as 3^ a pound over ceiling price by upgrading and short weigh ing - while OPA did practically nothing...