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Ethel D. Jacobs

Son Thomas also bred horses, and daughter Patrice married Louis Wolfson.


Author's Playhouse

Premiering with "Elementals" by Stephen Vincent Benét, the series featured adaptations of stories by famous authors, such as “Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobbies” by Nelson Bond, "The Snow Goose" by Paul Gallico, "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, "The Piano" by William Saroyan and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber.

Boileau-Narcejac

1967 – Choice Cuts, USA, abandoned Arthur P. Jacobs production with James Bridges screenplay (novel Et mon tout est un homme).

Cornell NYC Tech

The college launched following gifts of $350 million by Duty Free Shops founder Charles Feeney through his Atlantic Philanthropies and a $133 million gift by Qualcomm founder Irwin M. Jacobs and his wife Joan.

David H. Hoffman

After his graduation from Law School, Hoffman served as a law clerk for Judge Dennis G. Jacobs, Hoffman also clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Douglas Century

In October 2008, the Penguin Group published the memoir of Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Jack H. Jacobs, If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice In America's Time of Need, coauthored by Douglas Century, with a foreword by NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams.

Ethel D. Allen

She often encouraged African-Americans and women to seek political office; indeed, her friend Augusta Clark would later become the second African-American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council, eventually becoming the Democratic Majority Whip.

In January 1979, incoming Governor Dick Thornburgh named Allen his choice for Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Globalstar

The first call on the original Globalstar system was placed on November 1, 1998, from Qualcomm chairman Irwin Jacobs in San Diego to Loral Space & Communications CEO and chairman Bernard Schwartz in New York.

Home Hardware

Co-founded in 1964 by Walter Hachborn and headquartered in St. Jacobs, Ontario, the chain is co-operatively owned by over 1000 independently owned member stores.

Irwin Jacobs

Irwin M. Jacobs, chairman and former chief executive officer of Qualcomm

Irwin L. Jacobs, Minneapolis-based investor and chairman of Genmar Holdings

Jack H. Jacobs

In October 2008, the Penguin Group published Jacobs' memoir, If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice In America's Time of Need, coauthored with New York Times best-selling author, Douglas Century, with a foreword by NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams.

Janice L. Jacobs

She presented her credentials on May 9, 2006 and formally left Dakar on July 15, 2007.

John C. Jacobs

In 1892 he removed to Atlantic City, NJ, because of his failing health, and died there from Bright's disease.

John C. Jacobs (December 16, 1838 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - September 22, 1894 Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey) was an American politician from New York.

Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building

Biochemist, Benjamin R. Jacobs and his wife, Margaret Connell Jacobs, maintained a residence at the Kennedy-Warren.

Linkabit

Linkabit Corporation was formed in mid-1968 in Los Angeles by Irwin M. Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Leonard Kleinrock (who soon left).

Linkabit was a technology company founded in 1968 by Irwin M. Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and Leonard Kleinrock.

Long Hill Township, New Jersey

Jack H. Jacobs (born 1945), Medal of Honor recipient in 1969 for his heroic actions during the Vietnam War.

Louis L. Jacobs

In recent years he has focused on the middle portion of the Cretaceous and the Cenozoic, especially with respect to terrestrial ecosystems.

Melinda Jacobs Grodnick

Born in Minneapolis, Jacobs is the third child of five to Alexandra and global entrepreneur Irwin L. Jacobs.

Michael Heidelberger

Meltzer relented, and sent him on to meet with the Institute's chemists, Phoebus A. T. Levene, Donald D. Van Slyke, and Walter A. Jacobs, whom Heidelberger found assembled over tea.

Mike Lynn

In December 1991, a group aligned with Lynn purchased the shares of feuding Vikings minority partners Irwin L. Jacobs and Carl Pohlad.

Norman Raeben

His students include Bob Dylan, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Carolyn Schlam, Andrew Gottlieb, Janet Cohn, John Smith, Diana Postel, Lori Lerner and Rosalyn (Roz) Jacobs and the photographer, Larry Herman.

Philibert Aspairt

The history of Philibert Aspairt has particularly been cited by Edgar P. Jacobs in The Necklace Affair, a comic book in the Blake and Mortimer series.

San Diego Symphony

Several years after the orchestra's reorganization, on January 14, 2002, the San Diego Symphony announced the single largest donation ever made to a symphony orchestra, US$120 million by Joan and Irwin Jacobs.

Shaklee

Then in March 1989, Shaklee Corporation received an unsolicited acquisition proposal from a group led by Irwin L. Jacobs, the Minneapolis financier known also by his nickname "Irv the Liquidator".

Smartbook

By the end of 2010, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs admitted that tablet computers such as the iPad already occupied the niche of the smartbook, so the name was dropped.

Special Advisor for International Children's Issues

Susan S. Jacobs is the first person to fill the newly created role of Special Advisor for International Children's Issues. Working with the Office of Children's Issues, the Special Advisor actively engages with foreign government officials to protect the welfare and interests of children.

Susan S. Jacobs

Jacobs has previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs.

Her Foreign Service career has also included tours in Caracas, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bucharest, and San Salvador.

A former U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, she also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Issues in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs.

Susan S. Jacobs is the first person to fill the newly created role of Special Advisor for International Children's Issues.

The Exonerated

It stars David Brown, Jr. (the only cast member to have appeared in the stage play) as Robert Earl Hayes, Brian Dennehy as Gary Gauger, Danny Glover as David Keaton, Delroy Lindo as Delbert Tibbs, Aidan Quinn as Kerry Max Cook and Susan Sarandon as Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs.

Triple X syndrome

The first published report of a woman with a 47,XXX karyotype was by Patricia A. Jacobs, et al. at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1959.


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