Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Depicting a brainstorming session on the proposed TV series, it tosses some barbs at the television industry ("the smallest show on earth"), and provides a rollicking scene of vitriol and mass confusion among the show's writers. Preston is surrounded by a fine supporting cast in this scene, particularly Leon Janney as the executive of a rival studio and Phil Leeds as the inventor of a machine which provides canned laughter for TV shows...
...members was published yesterday by the Committee on Educational Policy. In preparation for over a year and a half, the 135-page volume contains the observations of some of the University's most prominent men on "an issue of educational policy of the first importance," according to the editor, Leon Bramson, assistant professor of Social Relations...
...Leon F. Czolgosz, 28, thought of himself as an anarchist. But he seemed such a dubious character in even that company that five days before his murder of President William McKinley, Free Society, an anarchist periodical, carried a warning that he was a spy. After reading of the anarchist assassination of Italy's King Humbert I, the idea of killing the President began to grow in his mind. A week before the murder, he bought a .32-cal pistol...
...game is an elemental struggle between the man who has it made (Leon Niemczyk) and the man who aches to make it (Zygmunt Malanowicz). Comfortably bourgeois, the husband flaunts his car, his boat, his radio, his sailing skill, his worldly outlook and his trimly bikini'd wife (Jolanta Umecka).* The young bohemian have-not counters with raw vitality and his skill with a virile-looking switchblade knife...
Inevitably, because blood is a whole pharmacopoeia in itself, the hematologists had a field day. Dr. Leon N. Sussman of Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital pointed out that besides the familiar ABO and Rh factors noted on every serviceman's dog tag and blood donor's identity card, there are no fewer than 15 other "public"* factors widely distributed in human blood. By computing all the possible combinations of these, Dr. Sussman arrived at the startling figure of 57.6 million different kinds of people distinguishable by telltale proteins in their blood. Because there undoubtedly are still other...