Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seldom had to go hungry for classical numbers. But for a broader menu ranging from the serene and classic to the troubled and modern, they have gone more & more over the last ten years to the best U.S. company, Ballet Theatre. Last week, after starving for a season while Director-Dancer Lucia Chase hunted up angels, Manhattan ballet fans packed into the Metropolitan Opera House for an opening-night feast...
...Benedict Center was established in 1940 by a group of Harvard Catholics as a somewhat more independent version of the Newman Clubs (for Catholic students) in other universities. But when Father Feeney became the center's spiritual director seven years ago, it soon began to grow into a full-dress academic institution, teaching Greek, church history, philosophy, literature and hagiography. More than 200 students were converted to Catholicism there, and 103 members and guests of the club felt called to become priests or nuns. This year, 50 members, about 20 of them converts, paid $200 a semester. Four nights...
...Frills. That spirit was typified by-among others-Air America, Inc. of San Pedro, Calif., founded last year by 34-year-old, Austrian-born Fred Miller. A civilian personnel director for the Army Air Forces, Miller joined the Flying Tigers cargo airline after the war and saved $15,000. This was enough to rent four DC-45 and start flying the lucrative Los Angeles-New York route last July. Flying 20 round trips a month at cut-rate fares of $99 ($58.85 under scheduled lines), Air America had carried 11,270 passengers by the end of the year...
...eyed old Chairman Sewell Avery had no trouble at all in glowering down all opposition to his one-man rule of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. After a couple of critics had halfheartedly denounced him at the annual meeting of stockholders in Chicago, Avery easily won re-election as a director and chairman...
What is left of the story is carried rather heavily by Shirley Temple and Tom Drake, two undergraduates busily involved with love and misunderstandings. But most of the time Director Elliott Nugent, who has a special knack for this sort of thing, keeps his lens and sound track trained on Clifton Webb. By neatly trimming the tone and pace of the film to Webb's personal high-comedy style, he has kept the Belvedere formula fresh and amusing...