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...most direct attack on Oppenheimer's loyalty before the board came from William Liscum Borden of Pittsburgh, assistant to the manager of the Westinghouse atomic-power division, who was executive director of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy from 1949 to 1953. He testified that he had written FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover a letter last November, expressing opinions that he still holds. Said his letter...
Among the factors which led him to this conclusion. Borden wrote, were Oppenheimer's long record of close Communist associations which survived the Russian-Nazi pact of 1939, his financial contributions to Communist causes, his false statements to security officers, his stand on the H-bomb...
...salesmen and buyers, stockholders are even more important. General Motors alone has almost 500,000 stockholders, thus a "presold" market for hundreds of thousands of cars. American Tobacco continuously urges its stockholders to "Buy American," hands out cartons of Luckies to its shareholders to pass on to their friends. Borden Corp. tested customer acceptance of its instant coffee and cheese products by first passing them around to stockholders. General Foods puts on fancy spreads of its foods at annual meetings, has a special order department so that stockholders can buy (at cost) $5 gift packages of its products to give...
...board chairman of Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, functions as deficit sponge and guardian angel to Chicago's spindly poetic colony and to artists in general. So vigorous a patroness is Mrs. Stevenson that no cultural gathering in the city is considered quite legitimate unless she is on hand...
...offices after 40 years, Ellen Stevenson fruitlessly searched Chicago for new quarters. Then one night as she lay awake a solution came to her: "Why don't I have the gumption to rent my own house to myself? So I did!" Into the 70-year-old Borden mansion on Bellevue Place on little cat feet moved Poetry and also nine other worthy cultural refugees, including the English-Speaking Union, a little theatre group and a highbrow FM station. The old house where Ellen Stevenson grew up on Chicago's Gold Coast had fallen on hard times, had been...