Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wherry's words came so fast that he frequently lost control of them. A succession of "Wherryisms" made him the Sam Goldwyn of Capitol Hill. He once promised another Senator "opple amportunity" to make a speech, called Oregon's Junior Senator Wayne Morse "the distinguished Senator from Junior." Other Wherryisms: "Chief Joints of Staff," "bell door ringer...
Into the Rough Atlantic. Just a few weeks before, the Amphitrite's trip had begun like a vacation cruise. Sam Luttrell, a retired Army officer in business in the Virgin Islands, had bought the yacht, a 96-ft. converted subchaser, at a Long Island shipyard. He hired an ex-Air Force officer from Miami for his navigator, and took on four Puerto Ricans as hands. With Gustave Frazer, a brawny Virgin Islander who worked for Luttrell, as engineer, the Luttrell family and their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south...
...third day the navigator died. He too had drunk sea water. "He go crazy," said Gus, "he scream and jump overboard." Sam Luttrell covered his wife and son with his trench coat, lay on top of them to shield them from the freezing spray. On the fourth morning, shivering in a sweatshirt and dungarees, Kathleen Luttrell, who had once danced in the Ziegfeld Follies, died. Her husband did not last long after. "The little boy Sammy," Gus said sobbing, ". . . all last night he cry and cry for his mamma and papa. He lay on them...
Broker Forman said he snapped up the steel because he "saw a chance to make a fast buck. There's nothing illegal. Everybody makes a profit, even Uncle Sam. What's everybody screaming about?" When committee counsel asked if he had prepared a ceiling chart for OPS as required by law, Forman answered bluntly: "When they start talking about filling out forms and stuff for a ceiling price, I am not in the steel business...
...Metropolitan Museum was buzzing, too. Besides displaying the impressive private collections of Museum Benefactors Edward S. and Mary Stillman Harkness and Sam Lewisohn, the Metropolitan is getting set for next month's show, "American Sculpture, 1951." Last year a group of advance-guard artists blasted the museum (and boycotted its "American Painting Today, 1950") because the jury was too conservative for them. So far this time, three conservative sculptors have boycotted the show, and blasted the jury as too advanced...