Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leavening a heavy diet of Fair Deal politicking with such flamboyant series as "The V-Girls of 1954," "Unwed Mothers" and "Walter Winchell." At the same time, he wooed New York's big Jewish population with its pro-Zionism and coverage of minority problems. Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff, a devout Democrat, believes that politics is one major reason for the paper's new success. Says she: "We are the only 'liberal' [i.e., proDemocratic] daily in the city...
...moved on to Schiff's house, where he told me his story...
...village's sheep were penned. He was the shepherd of Mishmar Ayalon, and the Sten gun his crook. Since 1951, six of Mishmar Ayalon's men had been killed by bullets out of the night. The villagers took to arms and appointed as their captain Shmuel Schiff, a wiry youth with a hussar mustache...
...night I joined Shmuel Schiff as he made his watchman's rounds. We stumbled through the dark across whirls of rusty barbed wire, past shoebox houses pock-marked with bullet holes. He poked his pistol at the heavy-meshed windows, to make sure that they were strong enough to keep out hand grenades. A rifle barked in the distance. We turned about at the end of the village near an abandoned house. A widow had lived there until one morning last June, when three men poked dynamite underneath the floor and blew her to pieces. U.N. officers tracked...
...Stein '98, Helen Keller '04, and Rachel Field '18 are three of the Radcliffe graduates whose works figure prominently in the collection. The wide variety of these books comprise the third section of the Archives. Murder mysteries like "Wedding Eve Murder" and "Blood From A Stone" stand near Pearl Schiff's "Scollay Square" and Dorothy Heyward's famous "Porgy." Down the stacks from Olive Higgins Prouty's "Stella Dallas" is Vera Dean's "United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration" written as Research Director of the Foreign Policy Association...