Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Is Show Business (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS). Clifton Fadiman, George S. Kaufman, Sam Levenson, Gloria Swanson...
President Harry Schacter of the Kaufman-Straus department store in Louisville was only an observer at the annual meeting of the Friends of Kentucky Libraries. But the facts he heard from the Friends disturbed him. In library service, he learned, no state except North Dakota ranks lower than Kentucky: 80% of its rural population gets no such service at all. By the time the meeting was over, Harry Schacter had an idea...
...years of U.S. history, the Rosenbergs were the first native-born Americans to be executed by order of a civilian court for espionage. Sentencing them in April 1951, Federal Judge Irving Kaufman stigmatized their crime as "worse than murder...
...William Kaufman of Bridgeport, Conn, stood up for the bad boy. It may be, said Dr. Kaufman, that the bad boy is not bad, but that he has a "brain allergy" to eggs or some other food. From among 600 cases seen in twelve years, he cited that of a schoolboy who was "unmanly," always tired, always flunking in school. Dr. Kaufman got his mother to keep a record of everything the boy ate, and also to note when he felt most tired. These times came, he found, after the lad ate eggs...
...Another Kaufman case: a businessman, member of a partnership, liked his work and did it well when the office was not too rushed. But on the busiest days, his partners complained, just when they needed him most, he had to lie down in the afternoon. It turned out that on those days he had a cheese sandwich and a malted milk sent into the office, whereas on normal days he ate a lunch free of milk products and drank black coffee. The cheese was knocking...