Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state where people were not born but mass-produced in retorts and female yearnings for motherhood were assuaged by a quick shot of "pregnancy substitute." The only utopia currently available for study is not up to feelies yet, but it is ready to report progress. Last week, Russian Movie Director Grigory Alexandrov announced that the Soviet film industry was on the verge of producing smellies. Said he: "We want to look through the screen as through a window. We want to hear, to see, but also to smell the breeze of the sea, the perfume of flowers and of green...
...Manhattan speech to 600 college girls, cool, correct Actor-Director...
...independents got together for a meeting of their own-the first in radio history. "Tudie" Judis, one of radio's most remarkable personalities, was not there ("I hate conventions"). But she had planned the strategy and was pulling the wires. As her delegate she sent her program director, shrewd, 32-year-old Ted Cott. As chairman of the independents' committee, Cott promised that the unaffiliated stations would all "speak with one voice" in the shaping of industry policies. The whole industry, worried by TV's threat, by intramural talent raids, and by sharpening competition for the advertising...
...problem as well as the drinker's.† Five years ago, Du Pont put a man known only as "Dave" on the payroll. He was a former tennis pro who had quit drinking, thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous. In Detroit last week, Dr. G. H. Gehrmann, Du Pont medical director, told a meeting of industrial physicians how Alcoholics Anonymous-and men like Dave-could help companies cure their dipsomaniacs...
...Montgomery Ward & Co.'s iron-fisted Chairman Sewell Avery had bad news for stockholders: March sales were off 16.7% from 1948. Ward's biggest stockholder, Massachusetts Investors Trust (which owns 1.5% of the stock), had bad news for Avery: it would oppose his re-election as a director at next week's annual meeting. But chances were good that indestructible, 75-year-old Sewell Avery would be elected anyway...