Word: managership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of the acceleration program which is still in effect, the system will be run temporarily on a three year basis instead of the old four-year basis. Thus those who have speeded up will be enabled to compete and still be eligible for the Varsity managership. The three-year plan will enable men who have already had a term or two at college to enter the competition if they have three more fall terms at Harvard...
Died. William Thompson Dewart, 68, since 1925 president of the arch-Republican New York Sun; in Manhattan. One of eleven children of a Scotch economist and unsuccessful railroad promoter, Dewart rose to the general managership of the late Frank Munsey's publishing enterprises at the age of 28. When Munsey died, Dewart came into control of the Sun, mutualized its ownership. He originated "Don't sell America short...
...Walrus-eyebrowed, cautious Branch Rickey, 60-year-old creator of baseball's farm system and its No. 1 exponent during 22 of the 25 years he ran the St. Louis Cardinals: the general managership of the Brooklyn Dodgers; succeeding extravagant, rollicking Larry MacPhail, his onetime protégé; for a five-year term; at a reported salary of $40,000, plus a bonus. The new Brooklyn boss has never watched a ball game on Sunday...
Competition for the Freshman hockey managership will begin tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the H.A.A. offices under the Union. An estimated 20 Yardlings will be on hand for the start of the six week tryout period which will give one of them the post of Freshman manager and his major numerals...
...winner and the runner-up, who will have the post of assistant '45 manager, will be in complete charge of the game with the Yale Freshmen early in March. These two men and three others will be invited to return next year to compete for the Varsity managership...