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unusual facts about Samuel H. Kaufman



2010 Sharm el-Sheikh shark attacks

The attacks were widely described as "unprecedented" both in media reports and by Samuel H. Gruber, a marine biologist who studies sharks at the Bimini Biological Field Station in Miami, Florida.

Alan S. Kaufman

Kaufman mentored, among others, Cecil R. Reynolds, Randy W. Kamphaus, Bruce Bracken, Steve McCallum, Jack A. Naglieri, and Patti Harrison, all of whom became Professors at major universities and authors of some of the most widely used psychological tests in the United States.

Algonquin Hotel

Some of the core members of the "Vicious Circle" included Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, George S. Kaufman, Neysa McMein, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood and Alexander Woollcott.

Barmy in Wonderland

Wodehouse adapted the novel from a play, The Butter and Egg Man, by George S. Kaufman and, echoing Shakespeare's dedication of his Sonnets, dedicated the US edition to "the onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets, Mr G S K".

Christy Anderson

1992-3 Samuel H. Kress Two-Year Fellowship in the History of Art at a Foreign Institution, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

David S. Kaufman

Upon the admission of Texas as a State into the Union, Kaufman was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Derek Dingle

His most popular publication, The Complete Works of Derek Dingle (Richard J. Kaufman, 1982), has been out of print for many years now, but has recently been re-published by Richard Kaufman.

Donald Ogden Stewart

He was friends with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, and Ernest Hemingway (he was the model for Bill Gorton in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises).

Duoplasmatron

Later development by Harold R. Kaufman resulted in the Kaufman Duoplasmatron which has been used for applications as diverse as semiconductor manufacture, and spacecraft propulsion.

Edward J. McCluskey

His thesis, supervised by Samuel H. Caldwell was entitled Algebraic Minimization and the Design of Two-Terminal Contact Networks (1956).

Eleanor Flexner

Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.

Electrostatic ion thruster

and developed in practical form by Harold R. Kaufman at NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center from 1957 to the early 1960s.

Gordon D. Kaufman

Kaufman was an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church for 50 years, and he was also the subject of two Festschriften.

Greta Nissen

In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback.

Hollywood Pinafore

Hollywood Pinafore, or The Lad Who Loved a Salary is a musical comedy in two acts by George S. Kaufman, with music by Arthur Sullivan, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

James C. Kaufman

He is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut.

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey's pseudonyms, taken from the protagonist of the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; that character was in turn based on dramatic critic and raconteur Alexander Woollcott.

Michael T. Kaufman

He also wrote for The New York Times Magazine and, after retiring in 1999, wrote obituaries of world and national leaders.

Milton S. Gould

The founders of that firm included Emanuel Celler, who later became a U.S. Congressman from Brooklyn, and Samuel H. Kaufman, who later served as a federal judge and presided over the first trial of Alger Hiss.

Perry J. Kaufman

Beginning as a “rocket scientist” in the aerospace industry, Kaufman worked on the navigation and control systems for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, the predecessor of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Phil Kaufman

Philip A. Kaufman (died 1992), American engineer, the namesake of the Phil Kaufman Award

Process theology

Today some rabbis who advocate some form of process theology include Bradley Shavit Artson, Lawrence A. Englander, William E. Kaufman, Harold Kushner, Anton Laytner, Michael Lerner, Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Lawrence Troster, Donald B. Rossoff, Burton Mindick, and Nahum Ward.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

The founding co-editors of the journal were Jeffrey Smith, Lisa Smith, and James C. Kaufman.

Richard J. Kaufman

By the age of 14 he was already inventing magic effects and he illustrated his first book at age 16 (Afterthoughts by Harry Lorayne).

Alan C. Greenberg, CEO of Bear Stearns, also a highly respected amateur magician, brought the financing that Kaufman required and the company Kaufman and Greenberg was born.

Richard Kaufman

Richard J. Kaufman (born 1958), author, publisher, illustrator and editor

Samuel Gruber

Samuel H. Gruber, shark biologist and founder of the American Elasmobranch Society

Samuel H. Davis

Davis died in a military aircraft accident while serving in Florida on 28 December 1921 while a passenger in a Curtiss JN-6 HG at Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida.

Samuel H. Kauffmann

During his tenure he became a patron of painter Max Weyl, supporting the painters career and helping to bring Weyl's work to the forefront of Washington's art community.

Samuel H. Piles

Born near Smithland, Kentucky, he attended private schools there, and studied law.

Samuel H. Scripps

Mr. Scripps' grandfather, Edward W. Scripps, founded United Press International (UPI) and the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which at one time was the nation's largest.

Samuel H. Young

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976.

Samuel Young

Samuel H. Young (born 1922), United States Representative from Illinois

Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Kaufman

Capcom U.S.A., Inc. v. Data East Corp (Fighter's History): scenery and characters deemed commonplace or standard are not copyrightable under the doctrine of scenes-à-faire.

Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc. (International Karate): scenery and characters deemed commonplace or standard are not copyrightable under the doctrine of scenes-à-faire.

Sylvia Plath effect

The Sylvia Plath effect is a term coined by psychologist James C. Kaufman in 2001 to refer to the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers.

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

Originally shown at Hamilton Palace, it was sold to Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery in 1882, from whom it was bought by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1954, which deposited it in Washington DC's National Gallery of Art, where it now hangs.

The Shakespeare Center

One of the principal donors to The Shakespeare Center was Samuel H. Scripps, resident Lighting Designer of the Riverside Shakespeare Company and leading arts benefactor.

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

The title of the short is a reference to the 1942 Warner Brothers film version of the 1939 George S. Kaufman Broadway comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, in which an overbearing house-guest threatens to take over the lives of a small-town family.

Three Arrows Cooperative Society

Notable Three Arrows members include author Bruno Fischer, labor leader Israel Kugler, political activist Samuel H. Friedman and poet Peretz Kaminsky.

Walker County, Texas

However, Walker later supported the Union during the Civil War; thus, in order to keep the county's name from being changed, it was renamed for Samuel H. Walker, a Texas Ranger and soldier in the American Army.

William Brenton Hall

He left a widow and two young sons, William Brenton Hall Jr. and State Senator Samuel H. P. Hall (1804–1877).

William E. Kaufman

In 1967 he assumed the rabbinical post at Congregation Bnai Israel in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, where he served until 1980.


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