Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have all types here-chiefly Airedales, shepherds, collies and Dobermans. When a dog becomes thoroughly obedient and responds correctly to every command and signal, he is schooled in defense of his master and in attack. If they don't defend us, they are ruled out, and it is here that most dogs fail...
Journey Into Fear (RKO-Radio) is Orson Welles's first cinema journey into the field of mystery melodrama. Welles shows himself a careful student of Alfred Hitchcock, but he falls far short of the Old Master. Journey Into Fear also falls short of the best Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Amber sons...
Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...
...appearing in the laugh riot, "Springtime for Henry," at the Colonial Theater in Boston, will be the guest of honor at a tea to be given this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the Eliot House Junior Common, Room. Mrs. John B. Finley, wife of the House Master, probably will officiate at the affair...
...Watertown the Taft School stayed and prospered. Horace Taft and another master owned the school personally until 1927, when they turned it over to a board of trustees so that endowments could be solicited. Taft himself soon raised $2,000,000-notably $300,000 from half-brother Charles Phelps Taft and $500,000 from Yale's and Harvard's great benefactor, Edward S. Harkness...