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...land. Before the members was an Israeli demand that Jordan be blamed for provoking the latest outbreak of killing in Palestine. The Jordanian machine-gun fire that killed four and wounded 17 Israeli archaeologists was organized and deliberate, the Israelis insisted. Having thoroughly reviewed the evidence. Chairman Christian Fredrik Moe of Norway differed and indicated that he would uphold Jordan's version-the shots were fired by one soldier who went berserk. At Moe's words, the Israeli delegation stamped out in a cold rage...
Joseph, the father, is a common factory worker, and at 50 he is passive and dizzy from having punched too many time clocks in peace and war. The mother, Margarethe (Moe for short), is openly carrying on an illicit affair with a boarder young enough to be her son, and all the older children know it. Daughter Katie has the instincts, if not the business acumen, of a prostitute−and a two-year-old illegitimate son to show for it. But it is Hank, a Neanderthal 18-year-old, around whom the family and its impending tragedy pivot...
Henry Allen Moe, secretary-general of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . . . . . . . Litt.D...
...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...
...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...