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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Allen Moe, secretary-general of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . . . . . . . Litt.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...family. His father Max, circulation boss first of Hearst's Chicago papers and later of Mc-Cormick's Chicago Tribune, directed the roughhouse Hearst-McCormick circulation wars of the early 1900s, later went to New York to build the circulation of the new tabloid News. His Uncle Moe was the boss of U.S. horse-racing news until he was sent to prison in the largest income-tax-evasion case of his time ($9,500,000).* When Max Annenberg died in 1941, Ivan stepped into his job at the New York News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fall of Ivan | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Moe Annenberg's son Walter took over the Philadelphia Inquirer, became a Philadelphia civic leader and successful newspaper and magazine (TV Guide, Seventeen) publisher in his own right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fall of Ivan | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Life in the pages of a Damon Runyon story is a happy affair, but Harry the Horse. Dave the Dude, Light-Finger Moe and many other guys and dolls seem to have been less engaging in fact than in fiction. When Runyon brought one of the real-life models of his characters home, his wife broke up the party by shouting: "Get that bum out of here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sorrowful | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

Unfortunately, sturdier data must supplant this episode from Moe's fanciful History of Harvard. Veritas was one of several religious mottoes suggested in the early years of the College. At that time a spiritual team, Veritas was translated as "divine truth," the meaning Dante had given...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Nothing But the Truth | 10/6/1953 | See Source »

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