Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, lends wit and wile to his re-creation of Samuel Clemens, 70, in a brilliant display of Americana...
Philadelphia. In 1956 Hoffa helped 18-arrests Racketeer Samuel ("Shorty") Feldman get a Philadelphia charter, Local 410, in the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union. By the time the union revoked the charter the next year. Local 410 had been thoroughly looted: though it had taken in about $20,000 during its short life, its assets totaled $450, its liabilities some $22,000. In gratitude for the opportunity for plunder, Feldman helped work out an alliance between Hoffa and Philadelphia Teamster Raymond Cohen, whose Local 107 had 19 officers with criminal records totaling 104 arrests and 40 convictions. Cohen stands accused...
Last spring, when Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse went shopping for an anniversary gift for his wife Mitzi (TIME, April 6), he got more than he was looking for. In paying $5,000,000 for majority control of Conde Nast Publications Inc. (Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour and Bride's Magazine), Newhouse caught Conde Nast in the midst of negotiations to buy the U.S. publishing house, of Street & Smith. Last week Sam Newhouse, no man to duck opportunity, closed the inherited deal...
Political Assets. In Frankfort, Ky., after winning the Republican primary for state attorney general, Samuel S. Cannon reported his campaign costs: $2 for a photograph, 50? for stamps...
...Samuel Maurice McAshan Jr., 54, moved up from vice president to president of the world's biggest cotton dealer, Anderson, Clayton & Co. of Houston, replacing Harmon Whittington, who retired under pressure at 59. McAshan, an Anderson, Clayton regular since he left Princeton ('27), is described by Founder Will Clayton, his father-in-law, as having "the quickest mind and greatest curiosity of anyone I've encountered." The shift marks a return to power of courtly, fiercely competitive Will Clayton, 79, onetime U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, who retired as chairman of Anderson, Clayton in 1950-only...