Word: headman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of all its woes, the British press last week had something to console it: Witty, intelligent Sir Gerald Campbell, recently promoted from a berth as Senior Minister of the British Embassy in Washington to a more important job as headman of the British information services in the U.S., was in London fighting the Battle of Bloomsbury on behalf of better news...
Opposing Waldstoin in the Crimson's Eastern League opener, will be Walt Sickles, last year's league leading pitcher. Sickles, headman of the Cornell mound corps, turned in a pair of one sided victories over the Stahlmen last season and until he was beaten by Pennsylvania last Saturday, he had not been defeated in two year's of league play...
First approach was to M. G. M. Headman Louis B. Mayer, an old Hearst friend and spiritual shepherd of Hollywood's producers. Mr. Mayer was warned that the release of Kane would mean a good, old-fashioned Hearstian attack on Hollywood-lots of stories on the intimate facts of the intimate lives of the movie colony. Hearst's gossip-dishing Adela Rogers St. Johns was placed on the firing line...
Chock-full of a sense of social significance is energetic little Morris Novik, 38, who in his three years as headman at WNYC has made it the best-run of the 30-odd non-commercial stations in the land. A onetime rabbinical student, Novik used to be an ardent "Yipsel" (Young Socialist Leaguer), trained for his present job by serving as social director of an International Ladies Garment Workers camp in Pennsylvania...
First result was that no more mention of R. K. O. pictures appeared in Hearst papers in Baltimore, Manhattan, Los Angeles-a free publicity break itself worth several thousand dollars. Next, excited Lolly Parsons phoned R. K. O. Headman Schaefer in Manhattan, appealed to him to stop Citizen Kane. Headman Schaefer could not recall exactly what was in the picture, said he would take another look soon; if there should prove to be anything offensive to Citizen Hearst, Citizen Kane might not be released. Gallantly Orson Welles declared that, rather than see his great friend, George Schaefer, in Dutch...