Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pocketing Teamster expense funds when other people paid his bills. Beck, already appealing a 15-year Washington state sentence for embezzling union funds, could get a maximum sentence of 30 years on the federal conviction. ¶ In Mineola, L.I., Vincent Squillante, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) protege of assassinated Albert Anastasia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1957), was sentenced to 7½ to 15 years in prison for running a garbage extortion racket. With him the court sentenced his brother Nunzio Squillante (two to five years) and one Bernard Adelstein, business agent of Teamster Local 813 (five to ten years). Vincent Squillante...
...Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will probably offer a non intensive second year course in Russian next year, Albert B. Lord, chairman of the department said yesterday...
Other members of the returning Harvard group were Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Albert B. Lord '34, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature; Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History; and John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
...walls were pierced by openings that looked like windows in ancient outbuildings from which spectators peered out like court nobles in an old print. At the exclusive Racquet and Tennis Club on Manhattan's Park Avenue, devotees were watching Northrup R. Knox, 30, challenge 41-year-old Albert ("Jack") Johnson for the world open championship of the ancient game of court tennis...
...more than the portrait of one of nature's fall guys, a well-heeled goof. When readers first meet Henderson, he is (a) rich, (b) not a knight, (c) 55, (d) has nothing to do except raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family for the heart of Africa. There, amid parching heat and native stench, his ironic adventures form a highly abstract quest for the meaning of life and death, illusion and reality...