Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Raggatt, the bureau's chief, thinks the meteor must have struck thousands of years ago, before the black aborigines settled in Australia. Otherwise, he says, "there must have been such a hell of a bang that it would have been recorded in native legend...
Alice had earned the job. Under the motherly guidance of Executive Editor Thompson and Editor in Chief Helen Valentine, Seventeen has grown in five years from a gangling kid to something of an Amazon (circ. 1,000,000). Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Valentine, with an editorial staff of 50 girls and one man (Edwin Miller, the 27 -year-old bachelor movie editor) have turned Seventeen into a moneymaking monthly by taking dead aim on teen-age readers (average...
Last week, the grand old man resigned as production chief of Fox, now will spend all his time on his 364 theaters. Although Fox President Spyros P. Skouras refused the resignation, it was almost sure to go through. Joe's move was in preparation for a Government antitrust order which is expected to direct Fox to divorce its production and distribution activities from its theater operations...
Died. Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine II, 78, since 1922 ruler of pocket-sized Monaco (370 acres), whose chief sources of income are postage stamps and Monte Carlo's gambling casino (the 24,000 Monegasques pay no income taxes); four days after he abdicated in favor of his grandson, 25-year-old Prince Rainier; in Monaco...
...confused with Marshal of the R.A.F. Viscount Portal of Hungerford, chief of Britain's Air Staff...