Word: founder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July, Allport will give the Institute's annual Hoernle Memorial Lecture. The lecture honors the founder and Allport's former teacher, who was a professor of philosophy here from 1912 until...
...government. Atkinson was replaced by John J. Curry, who ... was at that time considered to be more receptive to the views of Crane and DeGuglielmo than was his ...predecessor. It should be emphasized that the dismissal of Atkinson brought forth protests from men like W. Donnison Swan and the founder of the CCA, George L. McLaughlin...
...best self in French music anyhow. For the Philharmonia is a chameleon-like instrument that almost too easily adapts to its conductor. It was formed of Britain's choice musicians primarily as a recording orchestra, which, unlike Toscanini's NBC Symphony, never had a permanent conductor. Its founder: Walter Legge, London impresario and record executive (Electrical & Musical Industries Ltd., which successfully launched Angel Records in the U.S.). In order to keep the orchestra intact, Legge not only booked concerts whenever possible, but accepted such esoteric assignments as film sound tracks and recording the works of Russian Composer Nicholas...
Even with this profitable record, Inland has been reluctant to expand. But when bustling, 53-year-old Joe Block, grandson of Inland's founder, moved into the presidency 20 months ago, he brought some expansionist thinking with him. As vice president in charge of sales from 1936 to 1951 (with time out for a stint as steel expert on the War Production Board), he helped push yearly sales from $99 million to $519 million. As president, he turned his energy to improving efficiency, pushed Inland from eighth to seventh in the industry without adding a single open-hearth furnace...
Born. To Renée ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, 30, quicksilvery ballerina and musicomedy star (The Girl in Pink Tights) and Roland Petit, 31, founder-director of the French Ballets de Paris, in which Jeanmaire first starred: their first child, a daughter; in Paris...