Word: letterer
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...breakthroughs of the 20th century. As a member of the Manhattan Project, he collaborated with Albert Einstein and others to create the atom bomb. Unlike some colleagues who agonized over the weapon's awful power, he regretted only that it hadn't been used sooner. He often recalled a letter from his brother, who was later killed in World War II, that read simply, "Hurry up." Wheeler...
...Richard Branson is hosting a long lunch poolside at the Sunset Marquis hotel. "It's an old rock-'n'-roll hotel, which has--it's gone out of fashion a little bit, I think," he says. The Rolling Stones and U2 are regulars; Courtney Love wrote a love letter to Kurt Cobain in one of the suites. It's exactly the setting you would expect from the self-styled "rebel billionaire," the man who signed the Sex Pistols and the Stones to Virgin Records and then tried to bring that same swagger and cheek to the airline business at Virgin...
...treasured these years and our friendships and associations here; this has been the best job I’ve ever had,” Moses wrote of his time as headmaster in a September letter to Brownstein. He planned to return to New England, he wrote in the letter, hoping to “teach a little bit, and continue to do some writing...
...letter communicating the news of Moses’ impending retirement, Brownstein lauded the headmaster for a variety of services to the school that included seeing the endowment grow from $6 million in 1991 to $51 million this year...
...jazz musicians in the world. THE MAN FROM ITHACAThe man who best exemplifies the small but well-connected status of jazz at Harvard is Thomas G. Everett, who came to Harvard in 1971. Everett graduated from the Ithaca College Conservatory and was teaching public school when he received a letter from Harvard inviting him to apply for the position of Director of Bands. Initially, Harvard’s location played a key role in drawing Everett: considering the possibility of pursuing a playing career, he realized that Boston would offer more opportunities for performance than western New York. Over...