Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks after Weston landed his postwar job at TIME, Nick Samstag, TIME'S Promotion Director, found out that he was a qualified expert in this study of the shields, crests and supporters that accompanied the patents of nobility won by outstanding men of yesterday for outstanding deeds. After talking to him, Samstag got the idea that the ancient science of heraldry could be used to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. The result, after much work by the Promotion Department, was a 28-page, 19 by 24 inch book titled The TIME Audience...
Soon after the book had been distributed store executives began asking if they could use the material for window displays. TIME'S Merchandising Director, Stuart Powers, and his staff worked five of the TIME readers' coats of arms into displays for men's stores. (You can see them this month in some 200 stores across the U.S.) Cluett-Peabody, makers of Arrow shirts, ties, etc., heard about the displays and asked us for permission to use 15 of the coats of arms as designs for a new line of "heraldic neckwear...
Before he retired, Stannard and Kennecott directors made sure that they had the right man to replace him. Since they were planning to spend $10 million to help develop gold mines in Africa, they picked Arthur Storke, 54, a mining man with an African background. Storke had trotted the globe and risen to the presidency of Climax Molybdenum Corp. He was an operating director of South Africa's Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., and of Rhodesian Selection Trust, Ltd.; during World War II, as minerals adviser to Britain's Ministry of Supply, he expedited mining operations in South...
...board of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and second largest stockholder in the newspapers. Uncle James demanded that the managing editor be fired, but Publisher Gray refused. Last month, in a bitter dispute between a doctor and nurses at the county hospital, the county commissioners-led by a director of the Gray newspapers-sided with the doctor; the editors, again with Gray's approval, gave the nurses' side of the story...
...spirited pacing and exaggeration Director Montgomery has made the most of his synthetic plot-which is still not quite enough. There are hints that the picture was intended as a burlesque of a familiar type of grade B melodrama. But with its air of sly sophistication it could also be taken as a subtler parody of standardized featherbrain farce. Every now & then, in unexpected bits of dialogue and situation, the film shows a fresh comic touch, but most of its effort is frittered away in indecision...