Word: samuel
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However, I believe it is universally agreed and accepted that the Op-Ed page was the brainchild of World Executive Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, who placed the likes of Heywood Broun, Franklin P. Adams, Alec Woollcott, Laurence Stallings, Harry Hansen, Samuel Chotzinoff and many other greats on that page, including Cartoonist Rollin Kirby...
Experts disagree on the ultimate effects of the mass migration. Samuel P. Huntington, professor of government at Harvard, has argued that by accident the mass urban migration may turn out to be a great benefit for the U.S. and its South Vietnamese allies. "In an absent-minded way, the U.S. in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to 'wars of national liberation,' " he has written. Huntington's thesis: since the government controls the cities, the population shift has made the countryside much less important politically. As a result the Communists are finding...
...Died. Samuel B. Mosher, 77, founder of The Signal Companies, a conglomerate with sales that topped $1.5 billion last year; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1922, armed with $4,000 and an instruction pamphlet from the Bureau of Mines, Mosher constructed a small unit to extract natural gasoline from the "wet gas" found in the Signal Hill field near Los Angeles. Within five years, he was selling 34 million gallons annually to major oil companies. He went on to help found Flying Tiger airlines, bought interests in American President Lines, the aerospace industry's Garrett Corp., Mack...
...Samuel French Morse was the editor of Opus Posthumous, Wallace Stevens' uncollected works. He also edited the only paperback anthology of Stevens available in this country, and his biography of Stevens was authorized by the widow and daughter of the poet after his death in 1955. As long as ten years ago Frank Kermode was eagerly anticipating the Morse biography in the first paragraph of his book on Stevens. Now Wallace Stevens: Poetry as Life has been published, and it probably rasies more questions than it answers...
...Samuel Beckett...