Word: director
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard students who went on to medical school from 1949-56: grades and academic honors weigh heavily in determining admission to medical school, but a student's choice of major-assuming he has met minimum science requirements-has no bearing. Writes Author Dean K. Whitla, director of Harvard's office of tests: "It would be regrettable if some of our students who plan to become doctors felt that they must turn away from their interest in the liberal arts for fear of being rejected at medical school without a premedical major." Surprise of the study: at Harvard Medical...
...marvel is that this pride of cinema lions could be confined in one cage without roaring each other down. Director Mann has obviously cracked the whip, but some of the credit also belongs to Author Rattigan, whose script is the very model of a lion act-the exits and entrances precisely timed, the terrors tactfully spaced, the total effect not seriously disturbing but guaranteed to make the customers forget their troubles in the simple animal pleasure of watching someone else...
Organization Man King rules by delegating authority to able associates, e.g., brash Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, ironing out differences, keeping a sharp eye on the ledger. When methodical Cecil King heard last week that a rival bid had been entered for Amalgamated, he was certain that his board of directors would up his offer as necessary, took off as scheduled for Africa, confident that he would become the King of press kings...
...shut up; Sun Publisher Don Cromie, 43, called him in and said: "Jack, I'm about to play the dirtiest trick on you that I've ever inflicted on anyone. I'll give you $2,000 a month and the title of editorial director...
...been away from the day-to-day run of the news, working at home or out of town. Cracked one staffer: "He's often been a professional sophomore-now he needs to become a senior." By last week Sun staffers and readers alike were convinced that Editorial Director Scott was indeed a senior...