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What's wrong with bankers? The biggest fault, said Allan Sproul, president of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, is that bankers have failed to provide any leadership in solving the social problems of today. They have been too busy lobbying for or against things they thought were good or bad for banking. It is time, Sproul told an audience of bankers in St. Louis last week, for bankers to exchange "the role of pressure groups for the role of banking statesmen." No one in banking speaks with a voice heard by the public. "The banking community...
...trial run of the project this summer, a former TIME writer, Allan B. Ecker, 30, lectured on the newsmagazine at 15 schools of journalism. His 4½ years with TIME had included periods as writer in the Education and Press sections. He discussed the special techniques of our type of magazine, its feeling about news and about the background of news, truth and legend which has marked its relatively short history...
...Royal Typewriter Co., world's biggest producer of typewriters, no name is more regal than Ryan. The company was founded 47 years ago by Thomas Fortune Ryan, a tycoon who controlled a billion-dollar empire of banks, railroads, insurance, mines, utilities, tobacco, etc. His grandson Allan A. Jr. is now chairman of the board. Last week Allan's younger brother, Fortune Peter Ryan, who inherited $3,300,000 from his grandfather,* stepped into the Royal presidency...
...chance comes when Haas goes stone deaf. While his pension is being arranged, the railroad sends a husky young replacement (Allan Nixon) to join him and his wife in the line shack. Haas suddenly regains his hearing in the shock of an automobile accident, but before he can tell anyone his exultant news, he runs into another shock. He hears Nixon wooing his wife, and his wife egging Nixon on to murder Haas-both blandly confident that he is deaf. While he goes on feigning deafness and eavesdropping in full view of the conspirators, the movie becomes a fascinating game...
...were discussing last week at the annual meeting of the Institute of American History. The Institute was started ten years ago by Stanford's Edgar E. Robinson, who wanted to get scholars and teachers together. Last week, the teachers got a ringing earful from Columbia's Historian Allan Nevins. It's about time, said Nevins, that U.S. historians changed their tune...