Word: sams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second-acters sometimes turn avocations into vocations. In the 1929 crash, Songwriter Sam Coslow lost almost $150,000, vowed to master the stock market and get it back. He did, while publishing more than 500 songs (Cocktails for Two, Just One More Chance). When rock 'n' roll arrived, Coslow recoiled, switched from music to the market in 1961 at the age of 55. He now runs an investment service, edits the well-known market letter Indicator Digest, grosses $3,000,000 a year-plus $80,000 in song royalties. "The important thing," he says, "is to know...
...Winfield and Sam Fouts provided the brightest spots for the Harvard swordsmen. Winfield's two victories in the sabre proved enough to earn him a slot on the first all-Ivy team. Over the season the Crimson junior outdueled 11 of his 15 Ivy foes. Only two other sabremen tout better records...
...Early this year, Sam Huntington [professor of Government and chairman of the department] decided it was time for the department to move," another Instructor said. "We wanted to attract new people from outside. But we had to make some big changes to compete with schools like Berkeley and Yale...
...After getting father's fortune, it became impossible to go into his business, but my Uncle Sam said he had a fine army
There is every indication that the situation is growing progressively worse. The 142 work stoppages called by public employees in 1966 exceeded the total for the four previous years combined; informed estimates of the 1967 figure place it at upwards of 250. Dr. Sam M. Lambert, executive secretary of the National Education Association, which represents one million teachers and administrators, has predicted 250 strikes by teachers alone next year. Says Pennsylvania University Industry Professor George W. Taylor, principal source of New York State's public-employee labor law: "It's going to be a mess for generations...