Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Sam Clemens' father was a restless frontiersman, always dreaming of wealth and never finding it. The boy loathed school in Hannibal, Mo. As he later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...
...years of running for elective office, resourceful Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 78, should have perfected every possible defense against babies who try to reciprocate his professional affections. But last week in his home town of Bonham, Texas, Mister Sam, a childless bachelor of long standing, met a politician's minor Waterloo in eight-month-old Marty Grove, son of a Dallas reporter. Coming out of a clinch, Rayburn forgot to duck...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). With Sam Levene as Larry Fay, a Capone alumnus who muscled into a milk monopoly, and June Havoc as Sally Kansas, the sassy grande dame of Chicago speakeasies...
Schreiber, in explaining the philosophy behind the Project, often enjoys telling one particular anecdote. "It's a story Sam Levenson sometimes tells. It seems that one day his brother goes up to his father and says 'Dad, I want to go to college.' So the old man stops for a minute and he looks at him and he says 'So who's stopping you.' That's the attitude we'd like the parents of our kids to take. We'd like them to say 'Don't worry about it, son, we'll get yourself through somehow...
...ingenious, 10-Ib. heart-lung machine, invented by Dr. Sam I. Lerman. a Detroit general practitioner. Powered by a windshield wiper motor, Dr. Lerman's homemade machine-like complicated, bulky hospital models that weigh 75 Ibs. or more, cost from $4,000 to $40,000-is designed to take over the functions of the heart and lungs during heart surgery, oxygenate the blood and maintain constant circulation. It has been tested successfully on dogs. The machine runs on oxygen pressure, uses no electricity, and could be manufactured to sell...