Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students wearing contact lenses should consult University officials immediately, Dr. Andrew Contratto, Associate Director of the University Health Services, warned yesterday...
...alone. Sir John's every movement, every artful, effortless nuance of speech added up to a television triumph. Just having hired him to play the pathetic old English schoolmaster was a measure of Susskind's taste and talent. He could have left the rest to Director John Frankenheimer...
...practically unknown; since then he has had a sellout show in Manhattan, has exhibited in Paris and Milan, was the only American to win a painting prize at the Carnegie International, and has seen three of his paintings bought for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Director of Collections Alfred Barr Jr. Almost despite himself, greying, unassuming Alfred Barr, 57, has become the most powerful tastemaker in modern art, since he largely makes the taste for the museum, and the museum, in turn, sets the taste of those who think that in art, as in clothes...
...cancer-stricken Sewell Lee Avery, 85, cut his final tie to Montgomery Ward & Co. as a new era of expansion began for the giant mail-order house. Avery, the reactionary chairman of Ward's for 23 years until he resigned under pressure in 1955, finally quit as a director. At the annual meeting, shortly after the news was announced, Chairman John Andrew Barr, 50, told about the aggressive expansion program. It will use up the last of the $226 million that Sewell Avery hoarded from 1947 to 1955 in his belief that the U.S. was destined for a crash...
Died. Howard Wilcox Haggard, 67, longtime (1938-56) director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, a founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who passed dispassionate judgment on both the teetotaler and the lush (Alcohol is "the safest of all sedatives"; "The drunk should be made something not funny"), popularized medical history with Devils, Drugs and Doctors and Mystery, Magic and Medicine; of congestive heart failure; in Fort Lauderdale...