Word: pres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company's first novel, September Remember, had a good sale (14,000 copies). But, contrasted with Prentice-Hall's 1945 total net profit of $556,761, this was peanuts. Then Pres. Ettinger met Ros Marshall in Hollywood, liked her, quickly signed her up to write three books for Prentice-Hall. Since then he has signed up other authors, plans to put out ten more novels this year. Said President Ettinger, dazzled by the dollar-decked Duchess: "It will have a $1,000,000 sale before the year is up. And there'll be more like...
...program with no returns but pres tige (CBS knew that the program would lose the support of educators if sold to a sponsor), School of the Air gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...
Married. Captain Mildred Helen McAfee, 45, director of the WAVES, pres- ident of Wellesley College; and Congregationalist Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, 54; she for the first time, he for the second; in Jaffrey, N.H. The bridal gown had a hint of Navy rank: tailored white crepe with gold buttons and gold belt...
With a bumper crop of novices in prospect (some from the armed services), Father Superior Whittemore is optimistic of his Order's future. Says he: "Our pres ent problem ... is to adjust the principles of monasticism to the 20th Century. We must dare, by God's help, to live dangerously...
...Princeton, was an infantry officer in World War I. Colonel DeWald has followed on the heels of advancing Allied armies, listing damage, determining what "first aid" is needed. When he sees some of the atrocities committed on art by the retreating Nazis, he frequently has trouble with his blood pres sure. During the past year Colonel De Wald, who invariably refers to Italy's priceless objets d'art as "stuff & things," could sketch, from reports of his staff, a broad outline of what has happened to liberated Italy's historic architecture. Highlights...