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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living & Learning. Dean Mclntosh will bring to the task a calm flair for managing things. She comes of a Quaker family, went to Bryn Mawr when her aunt, Dr. M. Carey Thomas, was president. After a year at Cambridge, she took her Ph.D. in English at Johns Hopkins...
...Heir-Apparent Kauffmann started replacing the oldtimers with younger, more vigorous department heads. By last week, they were a smooth team. With a clinking cash register (last year the Star was seventh in the U.S. in ad volume), President Kauffmann had no intention of interfering with able Editor Benjamin M. McKelway, 53, who was re-elected last week. And Ben McKelway had no intention of changing the Star's editorial formula of printing local news in great detail and dodging controversial civic issues. Last week he cautiously introduced a larger body type (but the same old Ionic) for better...
...Reeve Albright, 35, daughter of the late Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 51, who specializes in painfully detailed paintings of decay and degeneration (Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray painted for M-G-M): their second child, first daughter (she had two children by a former marriage); in Chicago. Name: Blandina van Etten. Weight...
Hollywood, which had neurotically exaggerated its economic doldrums (TIME, Dec. 27), was startled last week to find its new-found optimism dramatized at last. For the first time in eleven years, M-G-M summoned 81 of its far-flung sales executives to hear the good news straight from the front office: the company, which released 24 pictures last year, was going to turn out an imposing total of 67 in the next 12 to 15 months...
Conventional M-G-M also grabbed some of the most unconventional talent in the business: there would be a Preston Sturges original for Clark Gable, a comedy by Garson Kanin, and Quo Vadis?, a mammoth epic to be shot in Italy by John Huston. But there were also plenty of safe, sumptuous projects along the more familiar M-G-Model, e.g., Annie Get Your Gun, the Broadway musical, a sequel to Mrs. Miniver, and what was described as an "adult" love story for Lana Turner...