Word: samuel
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...program under way with foundation capital, he evolved a principle that his firm applies today with its own funds: "We should take the money and blow it, and we should blow it in a big way." The big way brought some memorable shows to the air (The Life of Samuel Johnson, Orson Welles's King Lear, Comic Satirists Mike Nichols and Elaine May). As for the future, muses Saudek, "maybe a three-hour show, something from 8 to 11. Or maybe 15 minutes of silence...
...Roxy was never able to top its premiere. Though every major Hollywood film star made love on its screen, though its stage shows ranged from dog acts to the New York Philharmonic, the theater usually had trouble paying its bills. In 1931 Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel, the free-spending impresario who had conceived the Roxy, jumped to the Radio City Music Hall just up the street, was soon presenting shows that out-glittered those at the theater named after him. Upkeep for the high-stepping chorus of Roxyettes, the huge orchestra and the three pipe organs was so high that...
...SAMUEL S. STRATTON Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Washington...
...rerouting one or two small arteries from the upper chest to the heart wall. The operation is relatively minor and safe, but most U.S. cardiologists doubt that it does much good, if any. Cleveland's Dr. Claude S. Beck (TIME, March 25, 1957) and Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Thompson (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950) relied on a different principle. If tissues in and around the heart are irritated, they develop an increased blood supply. So these surgeons opened the heart sac and supplied an irritant by dusting with talc or asbestos. Good results have been reported, but the procedure...
Publisher Samuel Irving Newhouse, 64, has good reason for believing that journalism is far from a dying profession. After four decades of shrewd trading (TIME, April 6), his flourishing empire is worth about $175 million, includes 14 newspapers, five TV and three radio stations, Street & Smith Publications Inc. and Condé Nast Publications Inc. (Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour). To keep it flourishing, the empire at his death will go into a nonprofit educational trust, the Newhouse Foundation; the business will be run by his two sons, S.I. Jr., 32, and Don, 30. This week the first fruit of the plan...