Word: samuel
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Among 13 Pulitzer Prizes awarded in the arts, journalism and letters, a salute went to prolific Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (his second Pulitzer) for his biography, John Paul Jones. The hit musicomedy Fiorello!, written by indefatigable (at 70) George Abbott with Jerome Weidman, was the third musical ever to win such an award (the others: Of Thee I Sing and South Pacific). Outstanding in the field of international reporting: the New York Times's A. M. (for Abraham Michael) Rosenthal, who was ordered to leave Poland for probing too deeply into its internal problems. One of the least...
...Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), a British-born Jew of Dutch parentage, was a founding father of the U.S. labor movement and first president of the A.F.L. His window, at the rear of the south nave over the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, is dedicated to artisans and craftsmen. Among the eight scenes are Noah building the Ark, the building of King Solomon's temple and the building of Washington Cathedral...
Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 30, an heir and only son of Board Chairman Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; of a fall (ruled suicide by a Cuban judge ) from the 20th floor of the Havana Hilton Hotel. A spastic cerebral palsy victim, Firestone graduated from law school last year, had planned to practice in St. Petersburg, where he and his wife and daughter made their home...
...skill and daring in finding oil markets, Deterding built Royal Dutch into an integrated operation, invaded country after country in a battle with Jersey Standard. To gain strength, he merged in 1907 with Britain's Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd., headed by a Londoner named Marcus Samuel, who had switched from importing to the promising field of oil. The two companies kept their separate identities, but adopted for their common symbol the polished sea shell that Samuel had used as his trademark when he was importing shells to grace the boudoirs of Victorian ladies. To assure Dutch control...
...boyhood in the 1840s to the day of his death, exactly 50 years ago. Mark Twain's America followed the technique of Project 20's earlier and equally successful Meet Mr. Lincoln, used some 1,000 old photographs to bring back the patch of U.S. history Samuel Clemens helped needle into place. The pictures of the Old West, which attracted Twain as both reporter and prospector, were so penetratingly authentic that they easily got the drop on Hollywood, by comparison made farcical charades of Gunsmoke or Have Gun, Will Travel...