Word: seymour
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While the news stories traced some links between the White House and the electronic eavesdropping on the Democrats, the Justice Department prepared to handle the case routinely. Henry Petersen, head of the department's criminal division, assigned a team of bright but junior prosecutors, including Earl J. Silbert, Seymour Glanzer and Donald Campbell, to the task. At Petersen's direction, they showed little zeal for tracing the source of the funds used by the men arrested at the Watergate or determining who had authorized the politically motivated crime...
Wilson and former Radio Announcer Dan Seymour, who continues as chairman and chief executive, face a tough job. During 1971 and 1972, Thompson lost accounts representing about $54 million in annual billings, including L. & M. cigarettes, Firestone tires and Ford's small cars. This year the company has picked up 33 new accounts, but none are as large as the giants that got away, and much of the comeback burden may fall on Wilson's shoulders. With Seymour, 59, due for mandatory retirement next year, Wilson is in line for the top spot...
GREAT SWEDISH FAIRY TALES illustrated by John Bauer. 239 pages. Delacorte/ Seymour Lawrence. $7.95. These slightly static stories introduce a world of fearless children who come to no harm, questing princes, and, above all, trolls and tomtes. Trolls, as everyone knows, are huge, gnarly creatures. They have tails, live for three or four thousand years, and seem to be fond of putting children into frying pans. Tomtes, on the other hand, are small (ten inches tall), benign and clever. The illustrator, John Bauer, who died in 1918, seems to have been Sweden's answer to Arthur Rackham and Howard...
...important groups in the East-the business and Jewish communities-are particularly interesting. While Jewish intellectuals have largely soured on Nixon, other Jews are appreciative of his staunch support of Israel in the Middle Eastern war. "The Jewish community is by and large against impeachment," says Professor Seymour Siegel of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. "Nixon's courage in supporting Israel in its time of trial has aroused feelings of gratitude...
...Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts, lauded Deknatel for his contributions to the appreciation of modern art. "When Professor Deknatel began teaching modern art at Harvard in the 1930s not many people either knew or cared about the difference between a Picasso or a Matisse," Slive said. "Today things are different. His pioneer work and the scores of students he trained helped bring about the change...