Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group grew out of four meetings held by Sydney Peck, co-founder of the National Mobilization to End the War, which attempted to "define a multi-issue, multi-tactic coalition with responsiveness to both peace and social issues...
...grandfather, Edward W. Bok, was the first editor of Ladies Home Journal and the author of the Americanization of Edward Bok His grandmother was the daughter of Cyrus H.K. Curtis, founder of the Curtis Publishing...
...Army is on the defensive, and nowhere more seriously-or ironically-than in its home country of Great Britain. General William Booth, its founder, was a rebel-a onetime pawnbroker's apprentice and Methodist preacher who abandoned the class-conscious churches of his day to preach salvation in the desolate slums of Victorian England. His "church" was a revolutionary religious body-a consciously designed "army" complete with uniforms and "Articles of War," dedicated to feeding and caring for the poor, exposing social injustice and lobbying for reform legislation. Now, a century later, the organization itself is under fire...
Died. Max Lincoln Schuster, 73, co-founder of Simon & Schuster and a major figure on the American literary scene for nearly half a century; in Manhattan. Schuster's favorite question was always "Is there a book in it?" while Simon's was "Will it sell?" A relentless collector of ideas, Schuster personally selected and rejected manuscripts, encouraged authors such as Robert Ripley and Eddie Cantor, with his practice of assigning books rather than waiting for them to come in, and somehow found time for substantial work of his own, notably the popular Treasury of the World...
Keck had also fallen out of favor with the man who groomed him for his job: William A. Patterson. United's founder. Like many airline pioneers, "Pat" Patterson, though retired, is a busy and influential sidelines coach. He now criticizes Keck for being a loner who failed to take the board into his confidence. "Still," Patterson concedes, "these are difficult times to run anything...