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...engineer named Dr. Paul J. Raver, who became BPA administrator in 1939. Dr. Raver's ambition is to put every kilowatt in the Northwest under public ownership. Backed by the White House and his two titanic dams, he has moved steadily toward this end. Said President Franklin Thomas Griffith of Portland General Electric Co.: "It is axiomatic that no private utility can compete with the Treasury...
William H. Young '42 has been appointed Head Cheerleader to succeed D. Donald Peddie '41, Bill Bingham, director of Athletics announced yesterday. His assistants will be Charles A. Griffith, Jr. '42 and john d. Rigby '42. One more junior will be picked, and three Sophomores will be elected from a competition to be run off in the spring...
...Carroll and Virginia's red-clay country. For cinemaddicts who adore child actresses, Virginia makes the most of four-year-old Carolyn Lee. After Honeymoon in Bali (also with Carroll & MacMurray) Carolyn's steel executive father took her home to Martins Ferry, Ohio, was persuaded by Director Griffith to give her another whirl in pictures. But the real news in Virginia's cast is 24-year-old Stirling Hayden, who had never acted in anything before-not even a Sunday School pageant-when Director Griffith gave him his fat part in Virginia...
...When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment looking for a man to play the second male lead in Virginia. Director Griffith liked Hayden's looks, gave him a test, signed...
...Birth of a Nation's David Wark Griffith...