Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flowing abroad. Congress had yet to appropriate the money which it had authorized. The North Atlantic defense council had to approve its integrated defense plan and each nation had to sign agreements promising not to sell or transfer MAP arms without U.S. permission. MAP did not even have a director-ex-Ambassador James Bruce had not yet been officially nominated by the President. But MAP planners hoped to ship the first materiel by year's end or, with luck, by Thanksgiving...
...will of Hollywood's late, Red-hating Director Sam (For Whom the Bell Tolls) Wood carried on the crusade. A clause in the will requires every beneficiary, except his widow, to file a non-Communist loyalty oath before collecting...
...Manchester opening of A Streetcar Named Desire, Actress Vivien Leigh got not only critical raves but a courtly gesture from Director Laurence Olivier: despite wild applause, he declined to take even a single bow on his wife's big night...
John W. Holt, director of the Student Employment Office, said he would make no move unless Chi appealed to him personally. He said he doubted that Whouley was practicing discrimination, and implied that if there was discrimination on the Square Chi was attacking it in the wrong...
Wanda Jakubowska, the director, was a prisoner at Auschwitz during the reign of terror. She saw the queues of Jewesses waiting for the crematorium, the old women left to die in the mud, and the bones of the murdered babies. From her previous experience before the war with Film Polski, she acquired the talent for realistic sets and atmosphere. The synthesis, "The Last Stop," is her masterpiece...