Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good enough dancer himself to work out with Martha Graham's company, produced the performance, recruiting dancers from Graham, the New York City Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera. He has even donned a leotard himself to prance through the sanctuary in his own choreographed version of Jacob's ladder (Genesis 28: 12: "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven...
...Died. Jacob J. Shubert, 86, last of the three boys from Syracuse who founded Broadway's theatrical empire; of a stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters...
...mind of the American Indian the Great White Father meant the President of the U.S. Not necessarily so, says John Terrell. During the 1820s and 1830s, at any rate, the Great White Father was a stumpy man with beaked nose, pursed mouth and billowing chins named John Jacob Astor...
...Amazed." These are the qualifications questioned since Kennedy's death. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating proposed a constitutional amendment providing for the election of two Vice Presidents to "strengthen the line of succession." New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits and Virginia's Democratic Representative J. Vaughan Gary proposed that the Congress be empowered to elect a new Vice President. Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh suggested that the President himself nominate a new Vice President, his choice subject to approval by Congress. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: "Whatever John McCormack...
...conviction of more than a dozen top Reds between 1948 and 1951; following surgery for an abdominal tumor; in New Haven, Conn. A frumpy New Englander who studied socialism at Vassar ('30), Elizabeth Bentley joined :he Communist Party in 1935 when she fell in love with Soviet Spy Jacob Golos, became an underground courier Between New York and Washington; Golos died in 1943, and Bentley soon after left the party, calling Communism "a kind of missionary complex, upside down," provided the FBI with information that implicated Assistant Secretary of Treasury Harry Dexter White (he was never indicted) and helped...