Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise of enrollments to the shortage of teachers; thousands of citizens and educators were making a common effort, as never before, to solve the problems of the public schools. Whatever else the White House conference might accomplish, it had already, in the words of U.S. Office of Education Commissioner Samuel Brownell, started "the greatest stock-taking in educational history...
Peekaboo. In Cleveland, Common Pleas Court Judge Samuel Silbert ordered Lazo Gasic, 40, to find a new home during divorce proceedings after his wife Johanna, 35, explained: "He's extremely jealous-he lifts up my folding bed several times a night expecting to find someone under...
...Time for Sergeants. In Seoul, on Korean duty since April 1954. Sergeant Samuel Gelfman rushed to clear matters with his company commander, hurriedly informed Pacific Stars & Stripes that his home-town newspaper had erred when it printed a report stating that he had just spent a weekend sunning himself at Ocean Beach...
Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn, interviewed on the eve of his 73rd birthday, abandoned his famed malapropisms in favor of some straight-spoken reminiscences. Recalling how he had teamed up with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille to grind out Hollywood's first full-length feature film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, Pioneer Goldwyn chuckled: "What a trio to go into the movie business! I had seen one movie-something with Broncho Billy [G. M. Anderson] chasing a train. Jesse and Cecil had never seen any!" After Director DeMille had inexpertly filmed The Squaw Mart (with Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston...
...shepherds, who had hoped for treasure, were disappointed to find eight crumbling manuscripts wrapped in linen and stored in large jars. In Jerusalem, they eventually found two buyers: the Hebrew University and Metropolitan Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel of the Syrian Jacobite Church...