Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wenatchee (Wash.) World could get no paper, and the mill that supplied it could get no logs. Last week Publisher Rufus Woods, the portly sage of central Washington journalism, thought of a way to break the log jam. He rallied 30 staffers, borrowed axes and crosscut saws, led his band into a stand of timber...
...Rufus Roys Jeffris...
...Rufus K. Thomas...
Behind his back, some of the faculty call him "Rufus Rex." Last week Rufus Rex-Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, 70 -quit after 24 years as president of the University of Southern California. In U.S.C.'s official handout, he struck out the word "resigned," left it reading that he had been "elevated" to chancellor, an advisory post. Three days before, a committee that claimed to represent 90% of the faculty had appealed to U.S.C.'s trustees to investigate the "indefensible, inequitable" salaries imposed by Rufus...
...Rufus Lenior Patterson...