Word: hagan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsidy, but it restricted coaches from newspaper writing, radio appearances, endorsements of athletic goods. Jock Sutherland stood for all these things with fairly good grace, willing enough to die for a simon-pure Pitt if the opposition was to be equally simon-pure. But when new Athletic Director Jimmy Hagan set out to fill the Pitt Stadium, toward which Jock's teams had earned $600,000, by signing up Ohio State and Minnesota, Jock Sutherland snorted and made plans for his departure, convinced that he was up against "athletic envangelism gone wild...
...play or not to play is entirely in the hands of the team members and that they are satisfied with the result. A number of Faculty members interviewed were all pleased that the men voted down post season competition. Athletic officials saw in the move endorsement of the Hagan Plan, in operation since last July, whereby athletics have been somewhat deflated...
Richard Washburn Child, onetime Ambassador to Italy, was in Holland gauging economic conditions for President Roosevelt when his $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Playwright James Hagan and the Paramount interests was thrown out of a Federal Court in Manhattan. After alleging that Playwright Hagan's One Saturday Afternoon was cribbed out of his novel, The Avenger, Plaintiff Child had tried to withdraw his suit with an apology. Refusing to permit this. Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed the suit only after assessing costs & fees against Mr. Child and remarking: "It gave me a pain. The charges are absolutely unfounded...
...Sunday Afternoon (Paramount). Old-fashioned people who, when they speak of ''the movies" still think of cowboys, sheiks and embraces on an Empire sofa, should see this picture adapted from James Hagan's stage comedy One Sunday Afternoon. It is a calm, observant little comedy which shows how a man who thinks that he married the wrong girl finds out finally that he married the right one. In it, Gary Cooper, Paramount's No. 1 sex specialist, gives a first-rate performance as a country dentist...
...Hagan of Pittsburgh the problem was more complex than that. He thought that children often confuse the numbness of local anesthesia with real pain, that a lifelong antipathy often springs from the child's first visit to the dentist. To avoid this he recommended that all patients under five years of age be given a general anesthetic. He also urged that adults whose fears cannot otherwise be quieted be put to sleep before undergoing a dental operation...