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Died. Eddie Jacobson, 64, oldtime friend and onetime (1919-22) business partner of Harry S. Truman in their celebrated Kansas City haberdashery venture; of a heart attack; in Kansas City. As unofficial liaison man between President Truman and Zionist Leader Dr. Chaim Weizmann (later first Israeli President), Jacobson played a prominent role in the establishment of Israel...
...from Tel Aviv, Premier Designate David Ben-Gurion clambered down into a pit and dug to watch the first flow of the stuff. "Mazel Tov [Congratulations]," he murmured to the drillers. "When can we start to use the stuff?" Development Minister Dov Joseph hurried off by car to the Weizmann Institute of Science 25 miles away with a pop-bottleful to be assayed...
Educated by his well-to-do family in art and philosophy, he wandered through Europe after World War I, sopping up psychoanalysis in Vienna, writing movie scripts in Berlin, working as a special correspondent for the famed Frankfurter Zeitung. He visited Jerusalem, talked with the great Zionist pioneer, Chaim Weizmann. At last he began to find what he was looking for-but it was among the Arabs, not his fellow Jews, that he found it. In 1926 he became a Moslem...
...struggle to create the state of Israel brought forth three great modern Zionist leaders; each had his day and his role. Chaim Weizmann, No. 1, was the gentlemanly persuader, pleading eloquently in the world's chancelleries, the acknowledged leader until the time came for action. Then in stepped No. 2, David Ben-Gurion, the roughshod warrior-intel lectual, the visionary with a rifle who physically established Israel. Last week, to succeed the retiring Ben-Gurion as Premier, the Mapai, Israel's biggest party, nominated a man of quite different stripe: Moshe Sharett, 59, Israel's Foreign Minister...
Last week the fruits of Davidson's enthusiasm went on view in Manhattan. Standouts were his bust of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, looking like a resolute sailor in a storm, and a bronze head of Israel's President Chaim Weizmann. Shortly after the creation of that small but eloquent monument to the eternity of life, both Weizmann and Davidson himself died...