Word: newman
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Meanwhile, a warrant was issued for the arrest of one Morris Newman, alias John Milkowicz, described by Mayor LaGuardia's Commissioner of Investigation as the "smut king" of Manhattan. Accused of publishing a dozen indecent magazines which he distributed at a rate of 50,000 copies a month, through five shops in New York and Jersey City, King Newman was out of town, reportedly celebrating the Jewish New Year. This week he turned up, was held for trial along with Distributor Stolz...
...riddle of the bear is one of the tidbits in Mathematics and the Imagination* by Professor Edward Kasner, a distinguished but whimsical mathematician of Columbia University, and James Newman, a Manhattan lawyer who once was Kasner's pupil. Mathematics is one of the hardest of all sciences to popularize, and the Kasner-Newman book is remarkably successful-perhaps because Dr. Kasner has had a lot of practice talking about mathematics to children. He is the man who gave the world the "googol" and the "googolplex" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). The googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros...
Shattuck scholarships to Panl F. Bosco 2G, of Detroit, Mich.; Thomas E. Caywood, of Lake Park, Iowa; Robert H. Lieyellyn 1G, of Hatboro, Pa; Franklin B. Newman 1G, of Westchester, Pa.; and Roy E. Wiggin 1G, of Peabody, Mass. and Roy E. Wiggin 1G, of Peabody, Mass...
Eddie South's band (he of the violin) is causing a sensation at Jiggs' in New York . . . And we hear dirty rumors to the effect Artie Shaw is trying to get his old band back again . . . Harry Newman, impresarlo of the class of 1942 and booster of the King Cole Trio from California will be glad to know that well-merited recognition is finally coming their way as Lionel Hampden used them in a recent Victor recording session. The "Cardinal" will also be interested, as will most of you, in the middle part of the Earl Hines theme, "Deep Forest...
...result of a three week competition, five undergraduates have been added to the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House, Chairman Harry Newman, Jr. '42 announced yesterday. They are Richard Coombs '42, Robert Cushman '43, Robert Davis '42, Robert Flint '43, and Newbold London...