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...Among the members: Union Presidents George Meany (A.F.L.-C.I.O.), Walter Reuther (Auto Workers), David McDonald (Steel workers), David Dubinsky (Ladies' Garment Workers); Company Chief Executives Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM), Henry Ford II (Ford Motor), J. Spencer Love (Burlington Industries), Joseph Block (Inland Steel); President Clark Kerr of the University of California...
...flock of national meets before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945. Kyrre Tokle, another older brother, was still jumping in informal meets in the U.S. at the age of 55. (Last week Kyrre, now 57, lay critically injured in a Burlington, Vt. hospital with a skull fracture sustained while running a ski trail at full throttle...
...this liturgical movement has come a demand for the altar-centered church. In 1942 Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians at St. Clement's in Alexandria, Va. placed the altar facing banks of pews. Rector Darby Wood Betts argued that "the Church is first and foremost a family called into being by its Father which is God. Therefore we sit facing one another, rather than looking at the back...
Died. Electra Havemeyer Webb, 72, founder of the Webb Gallery of American Art (TIME, Aug. 15) in Shelburne, Vt., which houses 200 American masterworks (John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer) in a colonial-furnished museum reached by a covered bridge; of a brain hemorrhage; in Burlington. Mrs. Webb was the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, who were bemused by their daughter's interest in Americana, since they themselves had amassed a multimillion-dollar collection of European masters...
This approach draws severe criticism not only from Republican politicians but also from private citizens and the press. An editorial in the Burlington Sunday News indicates the attitude of most reactionary Vermonters...