Word: moe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world of U.S. foundations is losing its wise, undisputed dean: Henry Allen Moe, 69, boss of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the past 37 years. A Rhodes scholar and an Oxford-trained lawyer, Minnesotan Moe gave "Guggie" fellowships the status of a U.S. intellectual knighthood, personally knighted some 5,000 artists, scholars and writers to the tune of about $1,500,000 a year. Moe's genius was to spot promising people in their 30s, give them time and money to make good their talents. No man has done more to nurture creative Americans (Physicist Arthur Holly...
...much noise causes fatigue, irritability, even loss of sexual desire, nobody is yet certain of the effects of the drone of decibels that 20th century Americans have come to accept as normal. "Ears are not damaged by the normal sounds of life," says Newman. But some disagree. Audiologist Moe Bergman, director of the Speech and Hearing Center at Manhattan's Hunter College, studied a group of African tribesmen who never heard any outside noises but jungle sounds, compared his findings with a study of a group of Angelenos who worked in relatively quiet areas (no loud industrial noises...
...spent his time looking at every one of the 150,000 old-master prints in the Met's collection. Then, in a single day, he got three job offers-from a school in Santa Fe, another in Chicago, and the State University of Iowa. He asked Henry Allen Moe, the secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, which was the most American. Answer: "Iowa...
Cincinnati may not be batty yet this season-as Composers Larry Vincent and Moe Jaffe would have it in the song they wrote to celebrate the Reds' surprising climb to first place in the National League. But last week it was getting there fast. Shopkeepers unearthed yellowed 1940 newspapers and put them on display as a reminder of the last time the Reds won a pennant. Music lovers carried transistor radios to the Cincinnati Zoo's summer opera to hear the score between arias of Verdi's Macbeth. Attendance at Crosley Field was up 24% over last...
...Died. Moe Smith, 73, who, with Partner Izzy Einstein, formed the 1920' funniest and most effective team of prohibition agents. Addicted to disguises-they posed variously as vegetable vendors, gravediggers and Democratic National Convention delegates-Izzy and Moe arrested 4,000 suspected bootleggers, confiscated an estimated 5,000,000 bottles of hooch; of a stroke; in Yonkers...