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¶ Hospitals in Ohio'(as in many other states) have long enjoyed immunity against damage suits by patients injured because of hospital employees' negligence. The immunity was based on a tortured interpretation of an archaic ruling that classified hospitals primarily as charitable institutions. Now the Ohio Supreme Court...
ELEANOR L. BURGE
Father of the plan was Charles Cotterill, a Manhattan promoter-attorney specializing in Interstate Commerce Commission cases. Cotterill plugged his idea for years, finally interested Wilmington's Du Pont family. For president. Transport chose Burge M. Seymour, head of Manhattan's big Metropolitan Truck Leasing Co., a top...
Most ambitious work of the evening was a "ballad poem" for narrator, contralto, white and Negro choirs and orchestra: And They Lynched Him on a Tree. Poet Katherine Garrison Chapin (Mrs. Francis Biddle, wife of the U. S. Solicitor General) wrote the words; the music was by shy, devout Negro...
Tennessee-born Miss Burge, head of the music department at the Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College at Pine Bluff, Ark., owed her Stadium engagement-her bigtime debut-to a selling talk by President Alain Locke of Howard University, whence she graduated in 1934.