Word: sams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worry. At week's end, Sam Rayburn dropped in for a couple of days, and kept himself carefully covered to avoid getting sunburned. The President gave him a sport shirt (coffee-colored with figures of cranes and palm fronds) and took a walk with him down the beach. As Sam left, he told reporters that the country had nothing to worry about. "I don't see anything for anyone to be scared about," he said. "If a major recession or depression comes-which I do not expect-it will not be justified by our economic situation but will...
...Agatha finds, has changed; he is principally concerned with pleasing trustees and avoiding trouble. She has brought trouble along with her, in the shape of an anti-war propaganda film that the trustees refuse to have shown. Egged on by a cocky LIFE photographer (Sam Wanamaker) who is also in love with her, Agatha bludgeons-in fact, blackmails-her fiance into letting the film be shown. He wins out over the trustees, but for all that, loses the lady...
Secrets In the City. The sons of a Syracuse peddler, 73-year-old Lee and 68-year-old Jacob J. (for nothing) Shubert were already stage-struck in 1885 when an older brother, Sam, got a job as an extra with a visiting road company at $1 a week. When they found that program boys got $1.50 a week, the three brothers switched to the commercial side, and in a few years were leasing theaters-and putting on shows-in Rochester, Albany, Troy, Utica and Buffalo as well as Syracuse...
This, after all their good intentions, destroyed their faith in newspapers. It forced them for a while to put out their own paper (the New York Review) to get publicity, and made them secretive ever after. In 1905, Sam, the acknowledged leader of the family, died when the train he was riding ran into a carload of dynamite; Lee and Jake have never traveled together since. But Jake and Lee went on to fight with drama critics, bar them from theaters, and are said to have issued a manifesto that they wanted to be called "the Messrs. Shubert," not "Jake...
Starting right off in the first quarter, the Deacons carried the ball 70 yards down the field on a powerful sustained march, the first time they got hold of it. Sam Cantwell scored and the extra point was made on one of the Kirkland specialties: a fake placement, with an end run, finally ending with a pass deep into the end zone...