Word: hatcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party also owed plenty to the birthday girl. For Choreographer Agnes de Mille and for Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, she had set off a firecracker-string of Broadway successes. She had helped boost many of her onetime players (notably Celeste Holm, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, Mary Hatcher, Howard Da Silva, Pamela Britton, Alfred Drake) toward Broadway or Hollywood fame. And to her happy angels (among them: Producers Max Gordon and Lee Shubert, Playwright S. N. Behrman) she had paid...
Louisiana State University lost its president last week, but there were few if any cries of "Stick with us, Bill." Under Huey Long, L.S.U. had grown big and rich (Huey built it up to get even with Tulane for refusing him an honorary degree). Under William Bass Hatcher, appointed L.S.U. president in 1944 by Huey's political heirs, L.S.U. had lost some of its glories...
...Hatcher fired a dean who had once opposed his promotion to a full professorship. Then he forced out able Dr. Beryl lies Burns, dean of L.S.U.'s crack medical school, and 27 staff doctors quit in protest (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945). His campus enemies called Hatcher "William the Conqueror," and many left rather than be conquered. Last week 58-year-old President Hatcher himself quit. Reason: ill health...
Married. Mignon Eberhart, 47, whodunit hatcher (The White Cockatoo, The Patient in Room 18); and John P. H. Perry, 64, vice president and director of the Turner Construction Co.; both for the second time; in Chicago...
...September President Hatcher did it again. Without warning, he hired a new dean for the Medical College, thus forcing out able Dean Burns. Twenty-three members of L.S.U.'s medical faculty resigned. Four more quit last week. Said President Hatcher, "Each . . . will be replaced by an outstanding medical specialist...