Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While most of the covers drawn by your staff artists are masterpieces of a sort ... in the case of Oscar Hammerstein it might have been interesting to present him as he appears on the walls of Sardi's in one of Card's caricatures. After all, being done by Card for Sardi's is the epitome of theatrical fame on Broadway to most show people...
...Stafford's quick mind first turned to science. He loved to take the family car to pieces and put it together again. After his schooling at Winchester, a near-perfect examination paper in science won him a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and a job on the research staff of Sir William Ramsay at the University of London...
Patton's awareness of military history crops up constantly. Before the Normandy invasion he read Freeman's Norman Conquest to check on the roads used by William the Conqueror in Normandy and Brittany. He was the only one of his staff who knew that captured Regensburg was the Ratisbon of Napoleonic fame. The Melun crossing of the Seine, he noted, was the same used by Labienus with his Tenth Legion about...
Furthermore in the technical wizards lies the key to the relationship between the independently-endowed Institute and Princeton proper. Hore the interplay of staff is most evident. Hungarian-born John von Neumann secured the collaboration of Princeton's economist Oskar ("Business Cycles") Morganstern in his comprehensive mathematician's-eye view of economic phenomena. Von Neumann currently supervises construction of the Princeton calculator, and electronic digital affair differing from Harvard's in the same fashion as the University of Pennsylvania's "Eniac," which chooses a course of action rather than "thinks...
Biggest thing of its kind in the history of advanced learning the project will boast a paid staff of twelve specialists working under Director Stephen when it ultimately becomes established. Shaping the broad policies of the entire program is the general advisory committee, chaired by the President, including representatives of faculty, alumni, trustees, administration, and students to the tune of a 24-man total...