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...plenty of celebrity company: Alan Alda ($145,000), Mia Farrow (amount unknown), Barbra Streisand ($28,500), Barbara Walters ($28,500), Bob Dylan (who now has $78,000 more reason to sing of capitalist exploitation). New York Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson put up an unknown amount; Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, $28,500; Federal Judge Murray Gurfein, who wrote the decision in the Pentagon-papers case, $70,000. Most astonishing is the list of astute businessmen like Wriston who invested their personal funds. Fred J. Borch, former chairman of General Electric, put up $440,920; William H. Morton, president...
...popular songs; of cancer; in Manhattan. Already famed as a cantor, Secunda at the age of eight emigrated to the U.S. from Russia, later graduated from Juilliard. In 1932 he whipped up Bel Mir Bistu Schein while sitting on a New York boardwalk, but together with Lyricist Jacob Jacobs sold the copyright five years later for $30. Soon picked up by a then obscure trio called the Andrews Sisters, the tune went on to gross $3 million by 1961, when the rights reverted to the authors. In the meantime Secunda had won distinction as an orchestra leader and a composer...
...union's tough new stand is partly due to President Finley, elected in 1972 to succeed Jacob Potofsky, who headed the Amalgamated for almost 30 years and built a record of statesmanlike conciliation. Finley needs to make a strong showing in his first major negotiation. But on a deeper level, the strike points up a cruel dilemma that is likely to roil labor-management bargaining increasingly: workers' pay has indeed fallen behind the pace of price rises, and they can make a strong case for large increases-but those increases add to the inflationary pressure...
...years ago, Jacob Bronowski, a Polish-born, English-educated mathematician, historian and biologist, traced man's scientific development in a widely acclaimed 13-part BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, which will reach U.S. TV audiences next season. Now he has adapted his scripts into a book. The result is a long (100,000 words), fascinating, beautifully illustrated essay about the qualities of curiosity, imagination and inventiveness that lead man to explore the world and the invisible laws that order it. The book is also an exercise in optimism. With so many scientists predicting that humanity will destroy...
Died. Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, 83, controversial psychiatrist who developed the psychodrama therapeutic technique in the 1920s; after a long illness; in Beacon, N.Y. Trained in Vienna, Moreno came to believe that "orthodox psychoanalysis only makes a patient feel more self-conscious and lonely." He devised a kind of group-therapy theater in which participants assume roles onstage, spontaneously acting out their hang-ups and interacting with individuals on both sides of the footlights...