Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First-nighters (among them: the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Edward Johnson, some of his staff and stars) started right out applauding H. A. Condell's first-act scenery: his baroque boudoir, hung with Rubensian nudes, could hardly have been more apt. The Marschallin's monologue, sung by Vienna State Opera Star Maria Reining, had them clapping again. But the brightest successes were two U.S.-born girls. One was Virginia Haskins (Sophie), a pert, tiny soprano who made her first hits in the Chicago Opera Co. and on Broadway in Carousel. The other was a shy upstate...
Organized as a cooperative like the Associated Press, the L.P.A. elected Rubin Levin of the Railway Brotherhoods' weekly Labor as president, and hired Irving Fagan as editor and general manager. Wiry, able Irv Fagan, a 20-year veteran of the newspaper business (the Philadelphia Record), heads a Washington staff of seven, a national staff of 15 part-time correspondents. The L.P.A.'s top byliner: Old Washington Hand Nathan Robertson (PM). Cost of the service: $2 to $15 a week...
Ethridge, who has seven Harvard Nieman Fellows on his staff, decided to try a Louisville version of the Nieman Fellowships. Under the plan, Reporter Amster will study three days a week at the University of Louisville, work at the Times three more. The newspaper will pay her salary, provide tuition and books. The university will give Betty Lou private instruction on her hand-picked interests (municipal government, anthropology, taxation, labor relations, the Soviet Union...
...long time, Lever Bros.' Missouri-born President Charles Luckman has been itching to move his headquarters out of tree-shaded Cambridge, Mass. He wanted to take his staff down to New York, to the market place, where it would be close to the advertising agencies that spend some $12 million of Lever money every year. He also wanted to build a new $6,000,000 Lever House and gather the top management of Lever and its three U.S. subsidiaries under one roof...
...President Louis Goldvogel up to chairman of the board and brought in 50-year-old H. Cornell Smith, onetime merchandising manager of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store. Smith has tackled some big jobs in his time. As a World War II colonel on General Somervell's staff, he helped organize the billion-dollar Wartime Post Exchange system, and the Pacific supply centers for the never-launched invasion of Japan...