Word: pan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gravitate toward people with money," he once said, with winning simplicity. The money brushed off like pollen; at one time or another, Sonnenberg handled the p.r. needs of CBS, Philip Morris, David Sarnoff, Lever Brothers, Samuel Goldwyn, Pan Am, Squibb, Pepperidge Farm and others too numerous to count. A prodigios host and incessant partygiver, he was Manhattan's equivalent of the "talking chief on other, Polynesian islands-the chamberlain who enunciates the real chiefs dicta to the tribe, or, as he put it himself, "I supply the Listerine to the commercial dandruff on the shoulders of corporations...
...Afro-American Studies department nominated Isaac for tenure in 1971. Isaac said at the time that the ad hoc committee that reviewed his application did not know anything about his field of specialization, pan-Africanism. Isaac left Harvard in 1977 when his contract as associate professor expired...
...Darrell Imhoff, plus one million dollars. 3. Bill Dinwiddie. 4. 19. 5. Alcindor used to walk up and down the center court line. 6-7. Lee Winfield, Emmette Bryant. 8. Garfield Smith. 9. Shaheed Abdul-Aleman. 10. Zaid Abdul-Aziz. 11. Wali Jones. 12. Abdul-Ramman. 13. Centenary. 14. Pan American. 15. Akron U. 16. St. Francis of Loretto (Pa.). 17. Bradley. 18. Creighton. 19. Kenney Booker. 20. Jeff Mullins, Ricky Barry, Nate Thurmond, Guy Rodgers and Rudy LaRusso. 25. Steve Previs. 26. Greg Samuels (not Otto Petty). 27. Adrian Smith...
Pawn the Library. Desperate to meet a payroll, the University of Miami once hocked $1 million worth of library books to Miami's Pan American Bank in order to secure a $400,000 short-term loan. Fortunately, that was some years ago, and today the library is safely out of hock...
...good cartoon book is an oblong entirely surrounded by laughter. Among the merriest: Stop Trying to Cheer Me Up! by Frank Modell. One of the most versatile of The New Yorker's cartoonists, Modell is equally at home with animal gags (Pan using a unicorn horn for a corkscrew) and domestic explosions (father to a small boy who has nailed his Christmas stocking upside down: "You call that hung by the chimney with care?"). The Book of Terns by Peter Delacorte and Michael C. Witte is something else again. Every conceivable pun on the bird-word tern is illustrated...