Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mountains. Author Murray's scene is a South African valley, bounded by mountains and the sea, and speckled with the houses and shacks of Dutch, English, French and Kaffir Africans. On the surface, it is like any other valley in the civilized world-"a poor community," says old Jacob Fieldfare, "[where] someone is always frowning over a bill, or scraping to buy a new coat. We tell lies and gossip, our faces are drawn with longing for possessions and qualities which we do not have: power, personality, happiness, electric light, golf championships, more brandy, exciting friends, fame, white skins...
When the Chicago Sun-Times's Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Jacob Burck, 49, was ordered deported to his native Poland last summer (TIME, July 20), Sun-Times Publisher Marshall Field Jr. sprang to his defense. Burck was charged with having been a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s, and never becoming a U.S. citizen. But Field, taking note of Burck's long record of anti-Communism as exemplified in his political cartoons, backed him to the hilt and lined up top legal talent to fight the deportation. Last week Jerome T. McGowan, special inquiry officer...
...jurors and for refusing to answer questions before a Senate committee. In his career, high-living Harry Sinclair was the first man to wear silk underwear on the Cherokee strip, donated brass bands to a dozen Midwest towns, and (to find out which had more money) challenged Colonel Jacob Ruppert to a contest at throwing dollars into the Atlantic Ocean...
...Joseph Jacob Schildkraut of Brooklyn and Adams, Chemistry; Harry Kane Schwartz of Philadelphia and Dunster, Government; Stephen Jay Sigler of Brooklyn and Eliot, Bio-chemistry; and John Bruder Winston of New York City and Dunster, Social Relations...
...problems until decisions can be approved with complete unanimity. Yet the Corporation is an empire that includes an endowment of $326 million, bonds in Baton Rouge sewers and Oklahoma highways, an island off the coast of Maine, stocks in every sort of industry from groceries (A. & P.) to beer (Jacob Ruppert) to General Motors...