Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been around here so long I'm impinging on eternity." By last week his crack (like many he had minted) had become legendary among Washington correspondents, and Sir Bill, willing to impinge but not to intrude upon eternity, was getting ready to retire (at 69) from a career no living newsman could match...
...harried career, the War Assets Administration has come in for some businesslike spankings. Last week the brush was laid on for fair. A House committee, in its final report on surplus property disposal, charged WAA with everything from "sloppy business methods" to "catastrophic failure." It also charged "inconsistent pricing, unexplainable delays, unreliable, misleading and inadequate advertising." For hard-working WAA Boss Robert Littlejohn the committee had kind words. Nevertheless, the committee's conclusion read like a black book of business sins...
...Deals. The deal which automatically made United World the big frog was made by globular little Matthew Fox, 35, U-I's executive vice president and United World's board chairman. Matty Fox, who started his movie career at eight as an usher in Racine, Wis., made his first deal in little movies by buying up the 6,000-subject Filmo-sound Library of Chicago's Bell & Howell, one of the biggest U.S. makers of projection equipment. Built up to promote movie-projector sales, the library consisted mostly of non-entertainment films. But Bell & Howell also leased...
Examination by the CRIMSON of Parkhurst's private papers and his diary, found in his briefcase at police headquarters, showed not only high social connections with two Radcliffe entries, but a career of draft dodging that brought in F.D.R. and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. The latter had interceded for his draft deferment three times, calling him "indispensable to the Labor Department," and he had made an appeal to President Roosevelt's wife...
Music illustrating each creative period in the career of composer Paul Hindemith will highlight the Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs meeting tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Radcliffe's Agassis Living Room...