Word: directors
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Before she joined the Harvard Faculty, Miss Du Bois was director of research for the Institute of International Education. For services in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and Ceylon during World War II, she received the Army's Exceptional Civilian Service Award...
...idea of the International Seminar was conceived by Professor William Elliott in 1951. But for all practical purpose the program's success is accredited to Professor Henry A. Kissinger '50 who has served as director and chief fund-raiser during the seminar's 18-year history...
...Marion Morrison began in films as a part-time prop man. He fell into bottom-of-the-bill cowboy pictures and made a few better-forgotten films in civilian clothes. "They had a college picture about girls playing basketball," he recalls. "The man in charge was a little dance director. Everything he did was by the count?one, two, three, four?and then your line. I was completely embarrassed, and that's when I walked down the street talking to myself. Will Rogers went by and he says, 'Hey, Duke, what's the matter?' And I started to tell...
...Duke. The child became Big Duke, and the sobriquet stuck. By 30, Big Duke was a looming figure of contained violence waiting for a place to let loose. "I was in a saloon once where a guy shot all the way down a bar," he once complained to a director during a western fight scene. "And I wanna tell you, those extras aren't moving fast enough." The trick was to release the violence in neighborhood theaters. But somehow the oversized part continued to elude the outsized Wayne. The first picture he made for Monogram literally took place...
...professionals have fared no better. George Miller, senior vice president of the San Francisco firm that manages the $544 million Commonwealth Group of Mutual Funds, encourages his analysts to invest with their own cash. "Virtually without ex ception, they are losing money now," he reports. Dr. Shannon Pratt, director of the Portland (Ore.) State University Investment Analysis Center, estimates that the value of his own stocks has dropped 23% since May-a period during which the Dow-Jones industrial average has gone down 15%. He invests largely in over-the-counter stocks, which rose faster than most listed shares during...