Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before he died after only two months as U.S. Commissioner of Education, Lee M. Thurston went on a search for a first-rate deputy. Last week the man he had in mind was named his successor: Samuel Miller Brownell, 53, brother of U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
...Houston's Museum of Fine Arts held its first show of 36 Italian and Spanish paintings of the 15th to 18th century, a "permanent loan" from Collector Samuel H. Kress, 90, the dime-store tycoon (TIME, April 27). Among the best of Houston's windfall: a warm-hued Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds by Titian and his brother Francesco, fascinating with its bright but strangely stormy sky; Goya's A Maja and Two Toreros, its gaily clad figures oddly accented by the sinister tones of its wooded background. Under Kress conditions, Houston would not have gotten...
...kind of burglar alarm, just patented last week, has already put a crimp in the burglar business. Developed by Samuel Bagno and manufactured by the Alertronic Corp. of Long Island City, the Alertronic alarm has one or more "loudspeakers" that generate sound waves with a frequency of 19,000 cycles a sec. This is too high-pitched for normal human ears, whose upper limit is about 18,000 cycles a sec., so the office or bank protected by Alertronic seems silent to a burglar, although every cubic inch of its air is in rapid vibration...
Wives who shrink from a round-the-clock application of Dorothy Carnegie's rules are given an example of the sort of man a non-Carnegie attitude produces: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the English poet." Coleridge had plenty of enthusiasm but no goal and presumably no checks on his calorie intake, no praise for his taste in ties. Consequently, he left much of his poetry "unfinished . . . dissipated his talents . . . lived in a world of unrealized dreams . . . was always on the verge of doing something and . . . never did it." Oddly enough, it is the image of Coleridge -dissipated, useless and lovable...
...building, now nearly half completed, is being constructed and will be owned by Samuel W. Poorvu, contractor, according to specifications provided by the government...