Word: sheldon
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Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, stressed the importance of the gift to the quality of Department's teaching and research. He noted that Sloan received his A.M. and Ph.D. at Harvard and "knows what the Department needs...
Announcement has been made of the Sheldon, Shaw, and Knox fellowships...
Winners of the Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships for travel anywhere in the world are: Meredith M. Brown of Eliot House; Thomas H. Glick of Leverett, E. Wesley Hildreth of Kirkland, and Robert M. Torrance of Adams...
...Omaha, St. Louis, Kansas City and a hundred other cities were reading flow-rate gauges, poring over charts of rainfall data, passing on warnings to danger spots. Yet, after one of history's worst, wettest winters, the situation seemed generally under control. In Percival, Iowa, Farmer Mark Sheldon recalled 1952, when his 1,000 acres of corn were destroyed by floodwaters. Last year, with the tides equally high, he got 61 bushels to the acre, and this year he expects to do even better. In Omaha, Alva Sconce, owner of a lumber company, paid $15,000 to evacuate...
Many of his monologues are autobiographical "confessions." During Prohibition, on Chicago's West Side, he recalls tearfully, his Russian-born grandmother made bathtub gin to support the family, and one of Sheldon Berman's first memories is of being held by his mother (now dead) in a tight clutch of terror while police raided their home. His father Nathan was a tavern owner, and he appears, in one of Berman's best routines, as a militantly bourgeois delicatessen keeper who rough-talkingly tenders a chunk of his life savings so that his son can go to acting...