Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never lost the courtly manner of the Old Dominion. At 21, Strauss got a job as private secretary to Herbert Hoover, who has been his close friend ever since. By the time he was 33, he had become a partner in the New York investment banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In four years of World War II naval service as a procurement and ordnance officer, Strauss rose from lieutenant commander to rear admiral...
Thrill-Killer Nathan Leopold, 48, serving a life term in Joliet, Ill. prison for teaming with Richard Loeb (knifed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936) in the 1924 Chicago murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, learned that the parole board had turned down his bid for freedom after 28 years in stir because he "is not the right type of man to go back to society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept...
...John Murray & Allen Boretz), at Manhattan's White Way Hotel, has gone downhill since 1937. George Abbott no longer directs operations there, and though the present staff (John Randolph, Everett Sloane, Jack Lemmon) is conscientious and willing, it lacks the ingratiating touch the old staff (Sam Levene, Philip Loeb, Teddy Hart) had. Even in 1937 that touch was decidedly needed: Room Service is for the most part hack farce, and only as a skillful exhibition of the dodges and makeshifts of show business, a lively conglomeration of classic...
...Loeb, a chemist who did important work himself, died in 1913 and left his estate to his wife in the form of an annuity, the principal of which would go to Harvard upon her death...
...department of physics has received $310,800, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, department chairman, said. The funds will go to modernize the older sections of the Jeffersonian Laboratory, to buy now instructional equipment for elementary physics courses, and to establish the Morris Loeb Lectureship. Bainbridge said there will be at least one Loeb lecturer for a full semester each year, and if funds permit, additional lectures, who will reside at the University for a period of several weeks and give lectures both in advanced areas of physics and in topics of interest to the undergraduate body as a whole...