Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second issue of the H. A. A. News, official publication of the Harvard Athletic Association, is appearing today, according to an announcement by S. DeJ. Osborne '26, publicity director of the H. A. A. Copies are distributed by the managers of all active sports, or may be obtained by any undergraduate free of charge at the H. A. A., at Leavitt and Peiree's or at the Crimson Building...
Last week one of Mr. Munsey's best friends and oldest associates, Erman Jesse Ridgway, long president and director of companies publishing Everybody's, Adventure, Delineator, who now lives in retirement at Chula Vista, Calif., judged that the time had come for an explanation of the "mystery." In a eulogy of "the chief" upon the anniversary of his death, intended to "show from the inside how one of the big men of our craft worked and thought and felt," Mr. Ridgway wrote...
...Fire Brigade (Charles Ray, May McAvoy). Lest that drab day come when Young America shall cease to begin life with fire-fighting aspirations, Director Nigh provides the public with a picture well calculated to arouse boyish enthusiasm. The hero is a fireman who not only rescues women and children from the flames, but fearlessly announces to the heroine's papa, corrupt politician, that it is unethical to build firetraps. Charles Ray is the young man with brass buttons, tin hat; and May McAvoy, as the pleasing heroine, marries him in a smoky fadeout, while Boy Scouts in the audience...
Strapping cannibals who communicate with each other by "modulated grunts" were reported to dwell on the Island of Tiburon, off the coast of Sonora, Mexico, by the Director of Education, Sonora, last week. Director F. F. Dworak declared that these cannibals, the Seris Indians, have thus far made away with "most of the investigators" who have visited their isle. "The Seris," he continued, "are a people of enormous stature with particularly long legs. They go about unclothed, and prefer their meat or fish either raw or in a partially decomposed condition. We shall attempt to educate the Seris...
Simultaneously, British notables, headed by Director Harry Price of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, pondered the antics of coins, which were invisibly pitched across a room where they were observing, under strict control conditions, one Eleoncre Zugan, 13, cheerful, chunky Rumanian wench who had announced: "The Devil has come with me to London. The Devil is very pleased to come to London, for he hopes to find plenty to do here." Eleonore had been rescued from a Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother...