Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found the welcome warmest among politicians to whose campaigns he had contributed, and "always supported my friends as I could within my means." A sample of how hard he would work for "one of my very dear friends" came in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1952. when Democratic Incumbent Paul A. Dever ("May God rest his soul") was being attacked by the Boston Post. Goldfine's simple effort: he extended a $400,000 line of credit to the paper's owner, capricious Boy Wonder John Fox, on condition that the Post make a last-minute switch to support...
...Paul A. Siple, scientist-explorer of the South Pole Sc.D...
Yale, the U.S.'s second richest private university (first: Harvard), announced plans to raise $140,000,000 within the next decade, then in the next breath, told of a windfall already harvested. The gift: $15 million from the Old Dominion Foundation established by Financier Paul Mellon. Yale '29. It will be used to strengthen the residential college system, add two new colleges. Architect for preliminary site and design studies: Eero Saarinen...
...Paul N. Carlson, Horace Mann principal, sees advantages in a system which discourages bright students from becoming bookworms. He notes, "I have felt many times that many of our academically-oriented students did spend too much time in the speech arts, band, or vocal music. On the other hand, some of our most advanced students would not have fared well in college if they had not been brought out of the academic shell through the extra-curricular influence of various faculty members...
...following students will receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude: Paul Frank Baum, Mathematics; John Paul Blass, Biochemical Sciences; Everett Clarence Dade, Mathematics; Jared Mason Diamond, Biochemical Sciences; Richard Wayne Dixon, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert Allen Gorman, Government; Stanley Dale Harris, English; Leon William Hoyer, Biochemical Sciences; Jonathan Kozol, English; Dexter Wayne Lawson, Biology; Ralph Arnold Walter Lehman, Biology; James Richard Lehrich, Biology; Joseph Salem Lelyveld, History and Literature; Keith Merritt Lindgren, Biochemical Sciences; James Robert McCredie, History and Literature; Michael Ned Margolies, Biology; Calvin Cooper Moore, Mathematics;; Robert Anthony Myers, Engineering and Applied Physics; Robert...