Word: founder
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...word (or a dollar of production costs), Producer Crawford went from her native Akron to Smith College, and then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...
...free courses, e.g., mathematics, chemistry, mechanical philosophy, theoretical and practical mechanics, drawing, vocal music. Cooper established weekly lectures in social philosophy, set up a public library and reading room, and a school of design to train "respectable females" for suitable jobs. To establish and endow Cooper Union, its founder had given...
Most notable fact of all: Cooper Union's 1,400 students (chosen by stiff competitive exams which eliminate five out of six applicants) still got their tuition, as the founder intended, free of charge...
Died. Jessica Garretson Finch Cosgrave, 78, early suffragette, founder and president (since 1900) of Manhattan's longtime fashionable Finch Junior College for girls (yearly tuition and board: $2,200); in Manhattan...
...Great-grandson of the agency's famed founder, Allan Pinkerton. After detectives wounded his mother and killed his stepbrother, Jesse James stalked the senior Pinkerton for four months on the streets of Chicago, never brought himself to shoot...