Word: lucius
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...Nieman Foundation was established in 1937 by Agnes Wahl Nieman, a Yale alumnus, in honor of her husband Lucius W. Nieman, founder of The Milwaukee Journal. Her goal was "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism and educate persons deemed especially qualified for journalism...
...fellowship was established in 1938 in memory of Lucius Nieman, founder and publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, by his widow Agnes Wahl Nieman. Since then, the fellowship program has enabled more than 1,000 American and international journalists to study at Harvard...
...Watson and the central drama. He presented his novel as a sheaf of tortuous, conflicting depositions by participants and onlookers that left the truth about the enigmatic Watson untold. Lost Man's River carries the puzzle forward, but in doing so withdraws an additional 50 years from the event. Lucius Watson, one of E.J.'s sons, by now an elderly, self-apologetic historian, pokes around, finds the sole credible witness still alive and to some extent sorts things out. The oddity here is that the author cares more about the old shooting than most of the characters seem...
...Paul Bunker, the only Army player to make Walter Camp's All-America team at two different positions, who died in a Japanese pow camp after smuggling his unit's flag past his captors; Ed White, who walked in space and died in Apollo 1; Joe Stilwell of China; Lucius Clay of the Berlin airlift; George Goethals of the Panama Canal. The biggest monument, however, a large pyramid, belongs to a general named Egbert Viele. An eminent engineer, he helped design the cemetery, which perhaps explains his prominence. The entrance to the pyramid is guarded by a pair of sphinxes...
...story of Lyndon Johnson's tragic decision of July 1965--the story of his reasons--has never been rightly told. I don't believe there was anything that Bundy could have said to the President that would have changed his mind. FRANCIS M. BATOR Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts...