Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the A.P. strike desk sits Lewis Andrew (''Andy") Brophy, dapper six-footer, day supervisor in the New York office, who made a name for himself by a two-hour beat on the Shenandoah dirigible crash. He got a broken ankle when his car turned over returning from the wreck. A.P. rewarded him with, among other things, a cane capped with inscribed metal from the dirigible...
...foreign version of The Girl Said No, music from Princess Tingaling was substituted. Against U. S. screenings the D'Oyly Carte Company, whose British copyrights will not expire until 1961. can only protest. All credit for this costless coup goes to Producer Andrew L. Stone, who was immediately signed up by Paramount...
...already raised some $22,000,000 for his university and wants $10,000,000 more, is so determined a money-getter that he has become a Pittsburgh legend. He once walked into a meeting of Westinghouse Electric executives, planked a pottery vase down before startled Board Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, recited Keats's Ode to a Grecian Urn, and walked out with...
...dark and dynamic, as attractively reserved off the platform as he was wild-haired and passionate upon it. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. liked his conducting well enough in 1936 to sponsor the Symphony in a 40-station hookup over NBC. The Mellon family began to take an interest. Andrew Mellon's Son Paul became treasurer. Last May the Board began to lay elaborate plans for a 20-week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged $30,000 to a $300,000 subscription drive. Although $200,000 were...
...height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life of Andrew Carnegie, The Lees of Virginia...