Word: kent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sidney R. Kent, 56, super-salesman of the cinema industry, president of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A onetime laborer and surveyor, he offered to work free for Famous Players-Lasky on a trial basis, within ten years was general manager. In 1932 he was called to take charge of tottering Fox Films, three years later was made president of the newly formed 20th Century-Fox at some $200,000 a year. In defense of the industry's high salaries, he once submitted: "It may be more money than bank presidents...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley College orchestras will direct the musical portions of the opera. The production committee is headed by Gifford and includes S. Leonard Kent '43, John A. Holabird '42, William M. Green '42, John E. Sawhill '43, Thomas Matters '43, and Niles Chubb '43, all of Lowell House...
...Kent Cooper, 61-year-old general manager of the Associated Press, had his third song played over the air (America Needs You), took his third wife...
Winant in London. At Bristol airport, when Winant arrived, he was supposed to be welcomed by the Duke of Kent, but the Duke had not yet appeared. Winant obligingly climbed back in his plane, to keep from embarrassing the Duke. As Ambassador to the knee-breeched Court, Winant is unworldly and unkempt as ever. He arrived with one grey suit, which promptly fell into baggy-kneed disrepair. His conversations are brief sentences between long, groping pauses, long minutes of staring at the floor...
...Married. Kent Cooper, 61, general manager of the Associated Press; and Sarah A. Gibbs, 40, his onetime secretary; he for the third time; in Manhattan...