Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Breed of Reader. Established in 1845 by Rufus Porter, a Yankee tinkerer and jack-of-all-trades, the magazine grew up as a kind of inventor's catalogue, faithfully reporting Morse's telegraph, Catling's gun, and other newfangled devices of the time. Its Manhattan office was a hangout for inventors; among them Thomas A. Edison, who showed up one day in 1877 with a package under one arm that introduced itself: "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the talking...
...Died. Rufus C. Holman, 82, Old Guard Republican Senator from Oregon who spent his one Senate term (1939-45) ranting against New Deal policies, foreign and domestic, lauded Hitler for destroying a conspiracy of "international bankers," in the course of a losing primary fight (1944) against Wayne Morse refuted a charge of antiSemitism: "Now why would I be antiSemitic? My own father was an Englishman. I have relatives in England"; of a heart attack; in Eugene...
...FORD HALL FORUM. Dr. Rufus E. Clement will speak on Educational Integration in the South...
...rescue team's chief, Rupert Fothergill, 46, is mostly concerned with keeping his men alive. Fothergill himself has been bitten by a python and a rufus-beaked snake; one of his staff, while swimming, was bitten on the lip by a hissing sand snake. More than the animals and reptiles, Fothergill fears the dangers of diving into the lake where there is always the possibility of losing an eye on a tree branch or being impaled on a stake. Lions and elephants will be relatively easy to handle. Says Fothergill: "An elephant can swim a long way. It will...
...Harvard '29), a veteran Trib hand who had been passed over for promotion three times, was moved up to the city editor's slot. Last week Executive Editor George Cornish-the same man who fired Woodward for "Whitey" Reid in 1948-fired Sports Editor Cooke. His successor: Rufus Stanley Woodward (Amherst '17). After leaving the Trib in '48, Woodward had drifted through a series of jobs, freelanced a bit, wound up as sports editor of the Newark Star-Ledger. Aging (63), quieting (he hasn't kicked a shin in years), the Coach found the sudden...