Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, with better casting Summer Holiday might have turned out to be a pleasant, unusual cinemusical. Walter Huston, Frank Morgan and Agnes Moorehead are just right as the old folks. But the key role is all wrong for Mickey Rooney. Now 27, twice divorced and the father of two, Rooney is still a brilliant if limited performer. But he is no longer Andy Hardy. Playing a bookish kid who recoils from sex in the raw, he gives the impression that he not only knows the meaning of the dirty words on the washroom wall but probably...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...
McGregor, who believes that classrooms and real life are too far apart, should feel at home at Antioch. The college, founded by Horace Mann in 1853, had only 39 students when Engineer Arthur E. Morgan took over in 1921 with a few radical ideas to try out. Since then, students have spent half of their five years at Antioch on off-campus jobs. Morgan's famed "Antioch Plan" has boosted the student body to 1,100, extended the campus to 30 states and 400 offices, stores and factories, from the Washington Post to Macy's basement. Antioch students...
Appointed head of TVA in 1933, Morgan turned Antioch over to Dean Algo D. Henderson. Last fall Henderson resigned and 70-year-old Trustee Morgan led the hunt for a new president. McGregor was the 665th man whom Antioch investigated for the job, before finding the one it wanted...
Sewell Avery's roundhouse punch (TIME, June 21) was still knocking them out at Montgomery Ward. Last week George Whitney and Harry Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. left Ward's board because of "certain differences of opinion." Director Lawrence Appley, who is president of the American Management Association, promptly followed suit. Counting the resignations of President Wilbur Norton (by Avery's order) and four vice presidents (by choice), this brought Ward's total loss to eight top men. Still there was no sign that 74-year-old Chairman Avery had changed his single-track mind...