Word: karl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...KARL H. PECK...
...Karl Stern, M.D., for his autobiography, Pillar of Fire (Harcourt Brace; $3.50). In this book, Jewish-born Dr. Stern tells of his struggles in Nazi Germany and his eventual conversion to Catholicism...
Chief Promoter Karl Ipser, who considers Wagner "a moral world power" and Bayreuth "a symbol for the West," has written Margaret Truman, asking her to sponsor a student pilgrimage (no reply). He is also looking for some music-minded U.S. city that might like to help pay for the restoration...
...horse and respected citizen, retired Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, whose most recent public assignment was U.N. administrator for the abortive Kashmir plebiscite. The other members were of the same high caliber: Miss Anna Lord Strauss, former president of the National League of Women Voters (vice chairman); the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; Republican ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut; Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Charles H. Silver, vice president of the American Woolen...
...long time. It was founded (in 1911) with money left by a Portland steamboat and mining tycoon named Simeon Gannett Reed. Its first president, William T. Foster, had a knack for gathering bright scholars, and soon such men as Economist Paul Douglas, now U.S. Senator from Illinois, and Physicist Karl T. Compton, later president of M.I.T., were teaching there...