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...publicly that he is looking for an able pathologist to succeed him as director of the Rockefeller Institute's laboratories. Quickly recommended was Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, Nobel Prizeman, dean of the University of Rochester's School of Medicine & Dentistry. When Dr. Flexner will yield the general directorship of all the Rockefeller Institute's activities he did not indicate...
Newshawks continued to pepper him. His answers: "I've accepted the directorship very humbly. . . . I felt that it was a sort of call, almost like a call to the ministry. . . . I have been playing romantic roles-Roméo and Pelléas-for so many years that my views are naturally romantic. I look upon the Metropolitan with the same eager approach...
...told many jokes without smiling. With an M. A. from Iowa, a Ph. D. from Cornell and two years of teaching experience at Virginia State College, "Pat" Patterson settled down at Tuskegee in 1930 as veterinarian and bacteriologist. When Dr. Atkins was murdered, he stepped up to the directorship of the Agricultural Department, biggest branch of the Institute. At 34, Frederick Douglass Patterson is still a serious young bachelor, with broad shoulders, greying hair and small mustache, who rises at 6 a. m., jogs twice around the Institute's quarter-mile track before breakfast. Students frequently find him lost...
...company. Meantime Architect Howard T. Fisher of Chicago, son of President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, was putting together General Houses, Inc. And three months ago Architect William Van Alen, who designed Manhattan's Chrysler Building, had become sufficiently interested in prefabricated houses to accept a directorship in a third venture, National Houses...
...corporations, largely in the line of electrical manufactures." He was elected a director of General Electric Co. in 1894. two years after the company was formed and in the middle of the worst year in its history. Last week, at 73, after 40 years of service, he resigned his directorship because of ill health. Mr. Paine spends most of his time collecting treasures for Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...