Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well. Its programs rely heavily on the playing of short, and often inferior Rombergish selections, and are surfeited with mediocre commercials. Longer symphonic works mean less space for commercial plugs, and have therefore dropped to second place in programming. Listener reaction has been sharp: "The trouble is," says Program Director John Thornton, "that people expect a lot, and give nothing in return. When the Endowment Series was discontinued, we received over a thousand letters from our listeners. But if the deficit on the Series were divided among these people, it would have cost them around $75 a year apiece...
John O. Brew, lecturer on Anthropology and Director of the Peabody Museum, has been named Peabody Professor of American Archaeology, Provost Buck announced last night...
...member of the Peabody Museum staff since 1930 and Director since last year, Professor Brew has directed archaeological expeditions in the United States and Canada. His work is now concentrated on excavations in the central regions of southwestern United States, where the archaeologist's field is "extremely fertile," since the area is so remote that it is untouched by previous expeditions. The region, near Pietown, New Mexico, contains remains of civilizations which were predecessors of the Pueblos, according to Professor Brew...
...Alfred Zimmern, professor of International Relations at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and director of the Hartford Study Center for World Affairs, will speak at 3:30 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. His subject will be "The Greeks, the Romans, and Ourselves...
MacLeish graduated from Yale in 1915 and from the Law School, in 1919. He has held several government positions: assistant secretary of state, assistant director of the Office of War Information, and director of the Office of Facts and Figures...