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...dinner in Belfast given for him by the Queen's University Students' Union, Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, new director-general of British Broadcasting Corp. (TIME, Aug. 1), ordered that none of the speeches, including his own, be broadcast...
...Dark-horse candidate for the $37,500 job, Professor Ogilvie is a celebrated economist. The board wanted a thoroughgoing educator, and the new 45-year-old D. G. fills the bill perfectly. He taught at Oxford and Edinburgh before becoming president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast...
...plays a fair golf game. He has never broadcast, but the twelve-year-old eldest of his three sons recently wrote a play which was aired on a Northern Ireland children's program. BBC knows him as the man who persuaded it to broadcast pop concerts for his Belfast students during lunch time. But Director-General Ogilvie comes to BBC at a time when there is talk of spending ?1,000,000 to double Broadcasting House facilities, when the daring television venture needs careful nursing, when BBC's critics are calling for a return of the human element...
...Belfast the new D. G. has a very unsphinxlike reputation. Soon after 80 plasterers, painters, bricklayers had prepared the elegant vice-chancellor's residence for his occupancy, he gave them and their wives a party. He knows all his professors, assistants and researchers by their first names, provides good dance music at his frequent receptions, cheers the exploits of the university's Gaelic football team. Two years ago he demonstrated the strength of his pacifist convictions, refused to allow the university's officers' training corps to take part in the Armistice Day celebration...
...night long no one on North America saw tail or strut of Douglas Corrigan. Then, some 27 hours later, an American plane was spotted streaking past Belfast like a Sinn Feiner ducking the Black and Tans. It was Corrigan, all right, and an hour later he fluttered down at Baldonnel Airport near Dublin...