Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harper's article is written by Milton Mayer of Chicago University. After pointing out that the Tribune story ran as the news lead on the front page, Mayer proceeds to reprint it in full, adding footnotes of his own based on exhaustive research...
...Mayer retorts: "MacLeish was never head of UNESCO...
Furthermore, said Mayer, "If Julian Huxley, Secretary of the London Zoological Society (1935-42), is a former London zoo-keeper, then Colonel R.R. McCormick, President of the Chicago Sanitary District (1905-10), is a former Chicago sewage disposer...
...These words about a new English novel by Humphrey Slater made me turn immediately to the novel itself and then to Studio Head Louis B. Mayer, with the recommendation that TIME'S judgment should be followed and the novel purchased at once, if available...
...vice president in charge of production. Of the projected 67 films, a dozen are already in the can and six are now shooting. The program will "challenge the gloomy prophets of defeat," said Schary, who is being privately hailed by his studio head, Louis B. Mayer, as the long-sought successor to the late Irving Thalberg. There are still "tough problems to be solved," Schary told the visiting salesmen, as they gathered for luncheon under thousands of square feet of improbably blue sky (left over from an old Esther Williams picture). But "no company fearing disaster could plan what...