Word: wolfsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harry Austryn Wolfson '11, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy emeritus, died Thursday at Stillman Infirmary...
Renowned as one of the world's foremost scholars in comparative religion and philosophy, Wolfson completed major works on Crescas, Aristotle, Spinoza, Philo and Christian philosophers from Paul to Augustine...
...nailing the big operators, and he has shown a knack for it that would be worthy of the fictional Inspector Maigret, another unprepossessing sleuth. He was active in or headed the SEC investigations that led to charges being filed against such celebrated operators as Lowell Birrell, Eddie Gilbert. Louis Wolfson, Robert Vesco and Bernard Cornfeld.*When tremendous pressure was brought on the SEC to allow Cornfeld to sell mutual funds in the U.S., Pollack said no-and likely saved countless millions for American investors...
...aide, Sherman Adams, resigned in 1958 after it became known he had accepted gifts including a vicuna coat from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 from the Supreme Court when it was revealed that he had accepted $20,000 from a foundation headed by Financier Louis Wolfson, for which he was an adviser...
...latest male career to be invaded by liberated women is crime, according to Sir Leon Radzinowicz, Wolfson Professor of Criminology at England's Cambridge University. Although women have traditionally made up only one-eighth of the criminal population, Radzinowicz says, they will soon be closing the gap if the present trend continues. The trend will go on, he predicts, as long as women continue to liberate themselves from their traditional place in the home. During the World Wars, when women were forced to do tasks performed by men, their crime rate went up. "When the men came back...