Word: samuel
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Grandson of wealthy, ardent Republican Samuel Bowles, who edited the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Bowles got proper schooling (Choate, Yale), left the family newspaper (he opposed his father's opposition to the League of Nations) for Madison Avenue, where he and Friend William Benton organized the highly successful advertising agency, Benton & Bowles. (Bowles's contribution to Hellmann's Mayonnaise: "Double-whipped.") By 1941, Bowles had made himself a million dollars, "retired" at 40 and set out to double-whip the world...
...collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC, by Samuel Eliot Morison. This 14th volume of Morison's History of United States Naval Operations in World War II includes exciting accounts of the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, brings to a close the best of all U.S. service histories...
Anti-intellectual, full of theatrical prankishness and a fondness for humanity that is edged in bitterness, Eugene Ionesco, with Jean Genet (The Balcony) and Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), is one of the main forces in what he calls the School of Paris and most people call the avant-garde theater. From an obscure job in a firm publishing legal books, he emerged ten years ago at the age of 38 to begin writing theatrical works that were generally called obscure too. But like Genet and Beckett, he has expressed his themes less in dialogue than in the structure...
...start of the Tocsin meeting last night, much of the audience shared a confusion between "unilateral initiatives," an ambiguous Tocsin slogan, and unilateral disarmament, a proposal which the group opposes. In his brief speech, Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, drew the distinction sharply, and Tocsin leaders defined clearly their approach and listed specific proposals towards a nuclear test...