Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take, for example, Samuel H. Beer, professor of government, who began parachuting last July at the age of 50. With six static-line jumps to his record--plus one broken ankle--Beer...
...Gaulle's place in French world power and European an unification was the topic of last Thursday's Brattle Street Forum, as the panel made predictions as to the future of French politics and the relations of France and Germany. Moderated by Samuel Beer, professor of government at Harvard, the panel included a Frenchman, Paul Fabra of Le Monde; a German Gunter Gaus, editor of Sud Deutsche Zettung: as well as Nicholas Wahl, assistant professor of government, Harvard; and Roy Macridis, professor of political science, Washington University...
...derricks weathered under the south western sun; tramp steamers rusted in their harbor slips. But the visitor from New York heeded neither the heat nor the scenery. Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had come to the Texas Gulf Coast port of Beaumont for only one reason ? to run down a rumor that the city's two news papers were for sale. Beyond that possibility, Beaumont held no charms for the little man from the big city. And when the rumor proved false, the visitor could not get out of town fast enough...
...transgressions, has bestowed on Newhouse the title of "journalistic chiffonnier"?a French word that means "ragpicker." While Newhouse was angling for Portland's evening daily, the Oregon Journal (he hooked it last year), David Eyre, then the Journal's managing editor, pointedly referred to him in print as Samuel ISIDOR New-house." (Newhouse is indeed of Jewish descent, but his middle initial stands for nothing at all.) Last week, inspired in part by Newhouse's acquisition of New Orleans and in part by an ambition to make headlines, Democratic U.S. Representative Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn announced that the House...
...Right Time. Shrewd as he is in his chosen business, Samuel I. Newhouse was cast by accident in the role of newspaper collector: he just happened to appear at the right time, with the right price and an insatiable appetite to buy. Only chance determined that what he bought was newspapers...