Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THOMAS A. ELWOOD Director of Public Relations Automobile Club of Philadelphia Philadelphia...
After the Rose Bowl game of 1937, University of Pittsburgh's victorious Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland asked Athletic Director W. Don Harrison for a handful of spending money so that the team, having just netted Pitt $95,000 by beating Washington, could celebrate in Hollywood. Director Harrison primly refused. Jock shelled out the money himself, fought the matter out in Pittsburgh until Harrison resigned that March. It was then that Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman turned from firing "liberal" teachers to purifying Pitt's frankly subsidized football team...
...forms of subsidy, but it restricted coaches from newspaper writing, radio appearances, endorsements of athletic goods. Jock Sutherland stood for all these things with fairly good grace, willing enough to die for a simon-pure Pitt if the opposition was to be equally simon-pure. But when new Athletic Director Jimmy Hagan set out to fill the Pitt Stadium, toward which Jock's teams had earned $600,000, by signing up Ohio State and Minnesota, Jock Sutherland snorted and made plans for his departure, convinced that he was up against "athletic envangelism gone wild...
...route to Hollywood to make his first U. S. picture for Producer David Selznick, pudgy British Director Alfred Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes) stopped off to lecture Yale drama students in cinemanufacture. Excerpt: "Suspense can be introduced in a simple love story as well as the mystery or 'whodunit' picture. Make the audience suffer as much as possible...
These grandiloquent words last week rolled from the tongue of Willis Jerome Ballinger, a plump onetime editorial writer who is now director of studies for the Federal Trade Commission. Speaker Ballinger, who was once an amateur acrobat, was acting as ringmaster as FTC took over for two weeks the hearings of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Investigation...