Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Donald Hall cited the disappearence of "exciting" Magazines and blamed the conservative group which now, according to Hall, dominates this area. All the excitement, he continued, is from the old poets like Marianne Moore and e.e. cummings...
...appointment of Hughes will relieve the History Department of its current staff depletion, which is due to retirement, sabbatical leaves, and the attraction of positions at other universities. Hughes' field of Italian history had been partly covered by Professor Donald C. McKay, who left Harvard for Amherst last year...
...convincing maternal instinct in the first act, but later became insipid in her farewell scene with Teresa. Joyce White as Sister Marcella was miscast; she lacked the youth and radiance that this nun, who secretly keeps a mirror to catch sunbeams with, should have. In the male roles, Donald McAllister as the Doctor was stiff, formal, and didactic where he should have been casual, worldly, and sarcastic. As Antonio, Robert J. Morris was earnest enough, but substituted too much savoir faire and pompousness for what should have been a certain degree of awkwardness before the nuns...
LONG-DISTANCE TRAINS will be all but extinct in two decades, says Donald J. Russell, president of Southern Pacific Co., second longest (12,435 miles operated in 1955) U.S. railroad. Reason, says Russell, who also predicts end of Pullman cars, is jet airliners, which will soon be capable of 1,000 m.p.h. speed...
...Raymond Edgar Rowland, 53, was elected president of Ralston Purina Co., succeeding Donald Danforth, who remains board chairman and chief executive officer of the world's largest feed manufacturer (annual sales: $400 million). Born in Illinois, educated at the University of Wisconsin, Rowland is the first nonmember of the Danforth family to head the firm in its 62 years. He joined Ralston as a salesman in 1926, by 1940 was special assistant to the production vice president, three years later himself became production vice president. Retiring President Danforth, son of the company founder, told employees that addition...