Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fund set up in 1696 by Samuel Sewall 1671 and his wife stipulated that scholarships were to be given to needy students, "especially such as shall be sent from Petaquamscot (in the Narragansett Country), English or Indians, if any such there...
Died. Buddy Clark (Samuel Goldberg), 38, baritone crooner who progressed from second-string popularity in the '305 to recent high ranking among radio groaners; in the crash of a private airplane; in Los Angeles...
...INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA (1,043 pp.)-By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; translated by Samuel Putnam-Viking...
Masterpiece by Mistake. Last week U.S. readers could discover what they had been missing. Samuel Putnam, a Renaissance specialist who has done the best translation of Rabelais, has reversed Cervantes' vast tapestry into English without dropping more than a few stitches of detail and coloring...
...Translator. The man who has at last brought Cervantes' masterpiece to life in English spent 17 years directly on the job and a lifetime indirectly preparing for it. Samuel Putnam began translating in Latin class at Hoopeston, Ill. High School, was so good at it that he won a Latin scholarship to the University of Chicago. Ill health kept him from earning a degree but not from trying his writing hand at newspaper work...