Word: directing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Blake, a specialist in amateur shows, will direct the Pudding offering, James Venable is choreographer, and Alan F. Winslow '47 is in charge of production for Hasty Pudding...
...York on which ECA countries may draw, roughly like writing a check. The ECA countries will not be required to sever long-standing relationships with private agents. But for the first time in history, foreign governments, if they want to, will be able to draw on the U.S. Government direct...
Horyuji was the oldest wooden building still standing in the world. It had been used by the Buddhist church from the time of its construction until the fire last week. During the seventh and eighth centuries, it was the court monastery of Japan and benefited from the direct patronage of the emperors...
...know." After World War I, he joined Remy Electric Co., a General Motors subsidiary, as chief engineer and sales manager. In nine years he was a G.M. vice president; five years after that he became Bill Knudsen's right-hand man. In 1940, when F.D.R. tapped Knudsen to direct defense production, Vice President Wilson stepped easily into the great Dane's shoes. Since then he has had two big projects: 1) mobilize G.M. for war (tanks, planes, jet engines, etc.), and 2) reconvert it for peace...
There were always in the background of his life his sisters, as there was always in the back of his mind his bitter youth to direct his imagination. So influential do the sisters seem to have been that one of the greatest weaknesses of Author Elias' biography is that he does not tell considerably more about them. The best of Dreiser's writing, Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, surely reflected their lives as much...