Word: wahl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WALL and PER WAHL...
...beginning of The Laughing Policeman, a Stockholm bus is found with eight people sitting in their seats, all shot to death. For thriller readers, a parallel tragedy has just struck. Last month Per Wahlöö died at 48 of pancreatic disease. Since his widow does not intend to continue their Martin Beck series, the literary toll seems higher than the one in the bus. It is as if an entire family of friends were abruptly wiped out. Few thriller writers have interwoven so many good recurring characters with their plots; only the late Margery Allingham comes to mind...
Died. Jean Wahl, 86, lyrical, charmingly disorganized French existentialist philosopher and Sorbonne professor who once flunked a graduate student named Jean-Paul Sartre, later introduced him to Martin Heidegger, and set down his own view of philosophy as "a search for knowledge . . . that is not necessarily reducible to intellectual understanding" in a dense opus entitled The Philosopher's Way; in Paris...
...fellowships were established through a bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory of her husband, Lucius W. Nieman, founder of The Milwaukee Journal...
...Nieman's contribution to journalism is not necessarily measurable in terms of titles and positions, Pinkerton says. In fact it is difficult to measure the cumulative impact of the Nieman program on the profession. Harvard responded to Agnes Wahl Nieman's directive to elevate the standards of journalism by offering a unique prescription and letting the journalists do the rest...