Word: rodman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed rather prim to the rowdy French art students who studied with him at the Academie Julien. Thanks to his Methodist upbringing, Tanner refused to touch wine at first. However, he fitted in well enough with American expatriate artists and connoisseurs. He became fast friends with Department Store Heir Rodman Wanamaker and Patent Medicine Heir Atherton Curtis, both of whom collected his work. In 1899, he married a pretty white singer from San Francisco...
...When Joe Rodman's shining new IBM computer arrived, he felt sure that the accounts of his wholesale grocery in Boston were in faultless electronic hands. Alas, not so. The computer ordered new supplies when the warehouse was already fully stocked, billed some customers even though they placed no orders, charged others $39 for products that were marked only $3.90. Before long, the computer turned Rodman's once orderly operation into almost total chaos. Teams of IBM technicians spent six months fixing the malfunctioning brain, but by then Rodman had lost a number of accounts and was knee...
...SELDEN RODMAN Oakland...
...SELDEN RODMAN-Oakland...
Midst laurels stood: Bob Hope, 60, appointed to the ten-member board that selects winners of the presidential Medal of Freedom, filling a vacancy left by Henry Cabot Lodge; Rodman Rockefeller, 31, Nelson's oldest son, given the Chilean Order of Merit (Dad got it in 1945) for being "the kind of private businessman whose contributions, energy and ideals are so badly needed for the right development of Latin America"; Columbia University's No-bel-Prizewinning Physicist Dr. Isidor Rabi, 65, named winner of the annual $1,000 Joseph Priestley Memorial Award for "services to mankind through physics...