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...made on condition that it be matched by another $5,000,000 in gifts or pledges from others by July 1, 1950. Rockefeller said that the gift expressed his conviction that the Business School was making "most significant and objective contribution . . . to raise the technical standards and to broaden the sense of social responsibility of the leaders of business...
...Pennsylvania, the State Board of Censors (for movies) had moved to take over supervision of TV as well. In Chicago, Police Captain Harry Fulmer, currently engaged in a crusade against "lewd publications," offered to broaden his field to include TV. In Columbus, Ohio, State Senator Edwin F. Sawicki proposed that the State Department of Education "examine and censor . . . televised pictures on the same basis as films are censored today...
...proposal which would remake the entire distribution setup of the College. After two and a half years of experimental operation, the GE program has been carefully sifted by the Committee; the proposals, cautions and flexible, would not only expand the successful courses offered in the program but also broaden the whole base of the concentration-distribution system to the point where it too will serve as general education in its own right...
Four for One. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced that it would split its 11,158,207 shares of common stock 4 for 1 if stockholders approved. Though Du Pont kept mum on its reason for the split-up, brokers guessed it was to broaden the market for its stock, which has fluctuated widely on slim sales (day of the announcement Du Pont stock jumped 8⅛ to 179¾). It would also give Du Pont more common shares than any other U.S. corporation...
...year-old St. Mark's gives the kind of education and discipline that gets its graduates into the best colleges and the best clubs. Though the school's 177 boys now come from 21 states and nearly 20% are now attending on scholarships, Barber hopes to broaden the base even more. Every year, from now on, he will give a five-year scholarship to one boy from a different part of the U.S. "Private schools," says Barber, "justify themselves if, through their scholarships, they make it possible for all types of Americans to attend." Next year...