Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant will make one of his rare appearances as a presiding officer at a public lecture today, when he introduces Dr. Alan Grogg, Medical Director of the Rockefeller Foundation, at 4 p.m. in Emerson...
Radcliffe students apparently had more difficulty finding jobs last summer than the previous year, Mrs. Merill Austin, director of student employment, has decided on the basis of questionnaires on summer activities distributed to all students last month...
...Director Oppenheimer preferred to think of the Institute as an "intellectual hotel"-a place for transient thinkers to rest, recover and refresh themselves before continuing on their way. He wanted an international clientele at his Grand Hotel. Expatriate and exiled scholars have always been welcome at the Institute, but Oppenheimer had something different in mind: a continuous world traffic in ideas. For such foreign scholars as Denmark's Bohr and Britain's Dirac and Toynbee, Oppenheimer hoped to work out periodic repeat performances, so that they would never wholly lose touch either with the U.S. or with home...
Died. Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, 74, Columbia University professor emeritus, dean of U.S. economists, co-founder and longtime research director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (1920-45); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. An authority on business cycles, Dr. Mitchell headed the Hoover Research Committee on Social Trends, later served F.D.R. as a member of the National Planning and National Resources Boards...
Action-hungry U.S. cinemagoers may get restless waiting for the climax. As a matter of fact, the picture drags on too long after its climax, frittering away the power it has built up. Despite these shortcomings, Director and Co-Adaptor Jean Delannoy has a picture that he can be proud of. Against the crisp beauty of Alpine backgrounds, caught with a sharp pictorial eye, he has also caught the sorrow and frustration of the picture's real setting-the shadowy corners of the human heart...