Word: directors
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...Nicholas Murray Butler, who made him secretary of the Carnegie Foundation. In 1911, at 34, he went back to University of Iowa as its president, resolved to make it the "Athens of the West." But he failed to get along with the trustees, quit after two years, be came director of the American College of Surgeons (a hospital-improvement society). One day a Pittsburgh trustee, the late Alfred Reed Hamilton, heard him make a speech to Pittsburgh surgeons, exclaimed: "There's the next chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh...
Twelve generations of Levinthals gave their people rabbis, the last two of them Bernard Louis Levinthal, at 74 the "Dean of the Orthodox Rabbinate" in the U. S., and his son, Israel Herbert Levinthal, director of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre. The succession was broken when the only male in the present generation, Lester Lazar Levinthal, went to Harvard to study law. Though Helen Hadassah Levinthal could not take her brother's place, she was guided in her studies by a Jewish precept: " 'Study the law for its own sake'-that is, for its richness and beauty...
...Agent (Warner) tries to do for spy hunters what G-Men did for the FBI in 1935. A timely, slapdash nerve-racker, it has none of the sophisticated humor with which, in such superbly organized spy thrillers as The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, smart British Director-Producer Alfred Hitchcock makes improbable situations plausible. Espionage Agent is filled with as many improbabilities as spies, and it is almost as hard to avoid spotting them...
Since last winter the Government-subsidized Japan Foreign Trade Bureau has taken offices in San Francisco, in Houston, in Chicago. Two weeks after Germany had made an alliance with Japan's enemy, Russia, grinning Director Suejiro Ogawa of the Chicago bureau decided the time had come to get busy. In the New York Journal of Commerce he ran a full-page advertisement: "Japan is America's Third Largest Customer ... if America would buy more Japanese goods United States exports to Japan could be expanded to even larger proportions...
Once upon a time-as who over 21 doesn't remember?-there was a movie director named Rex Ingram. A very romantic director he was. Himself as handsome as a movie star, he was born in Dublin, had been a New Haven dockworker, graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts, protege of famed Sculptor Lee Lawrie, ex-War pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. And he turned out such successes as Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda, Mare Nostrum. His name was linked so closely with Sabatini, Ibanez, Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro that...