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Shrieking cheers of gratitude for their benefactor, 25,000 yelping children and their mothers clambered and danced through the meadows of Manhattan's summer-striped Central Park. It was a grand picnic-the 22nd annual June Walk of the Monongahela Club. Round-faced, genial James J. Hines eased a piggybacking child from his shoulders, doffed his straw boater, wiped the sweat from his face and said proudly: "Kids who came to the first of these things are voters now. They're not all voting my district, but they're voting somewhere...
...present the committee has the names of 41 undergraduates holding scholarships who plan to enter the ministry. Bender stated that there were probably others who meet benefactor Hollis' criteria...
Wheatley's boss, and topmost Brahmin around WGBH, is Ralph ("Mr. Boston") Lowell, the institute's sole trustee and perhaps the only banker who owns a show-business achievement award from Variety. Now that his operation is functioning smoothly, Benefactor Lowell finds it possible to report that through WBGH the Lowells now speak not only to the Cabots but to some thousands of Bostonians a day as well...
...Manhattan meeting of liquor dealers, Massachusetts' boyish (39) Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy rose to help hail Charles Berns, the co-founding "Charlie" of Manhattan's famed "21" restaurant (see BUSINESS) and guest of honor as a benefactor of Massachusetts' decade-old Brandeis University. Getting a glowing introduction, Jack Kennedy seemed startled, then smiled and disclosed some spirits in his ancestral tree: "My grandfather had a saloon and my father was in the liquor business, and I don't usually get such a warm reception from people to whom my father sold something...
...Benefactor Shriver's idea of how his early 19th century Georgian brick memorial should be decorated turned out to require the services of half a dozen artists and sculptors. On view last week was the largest item of all: a 640-sq. ft. mural for the main lobby, made up of panels depicting the early faculty of the Medical School, the early faculty of Johns Hopkins, philanthropists of Baltimore, the picture of Shriver's class of 1891 and a deep, cotillion bow from Bachelor Shriver to The Ten Famous Beauties of Baltimore, each shown "at the height...