Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Father Robert Ignatius Gannon, 46, is halfway through his six-year term as head of Fordham, biggest of the nation's Catholic universities. Like its football teams, Fordham is rough, tough, commercial. President Gannon, a onetime English and philosophy teacher, believes there is nothing wrong with Fordham football or fascism in Italy, plenty wrong with Progressive Education...
Main job of a State university president is to handle his State Legislature. Big, blond, booming Robert Gordon Sproul, 48, an ambitious executive and politician-president of the University of California, who recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics...
...educational prestige among U. S. private universities are Harvard and Chicago. Both have added to their reputation since they got their present presidents, Chicago its Boy Wonder Robert Maynard Hutchins in 1929, Harvard its Chemist James Bryant Conant in 1933. Rawboned President Conant, now 46, has proved a cautious, canny administrator. Arriving when Harvard was becoming stodgy and losing renowned old professors, Conant hired brilliant young teachers, jabbed a hypodermic into stodgy places, but made no basic change in the Harvard system. President Hutchins, now 40, is impatient with all existing systems. Smart, handsome, charming, a crack money raiser, Hutchins...
...decadence is no easy job for a motion picture, yet director, producer, and cast have held that mood and made Wuthering Heights into a tremendously convincing tragedy. But of all those who had a hand in the picture Laurence Oliver deserves the largest share of credit. Here is a Robert Taylor with some guts, a Clark Gable who knows...
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Robert Donat, Greer Garson; TIME...