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PARKINSON'S LAW, by C. Northcote Parkinson, Houghton Mifflin Co., 113 pp., $3.00. Illustrated...
...C. Northcote Parkinson, Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaya, is an eminent authority on the science of administration. Parkinson's Law is a learned and sometimes mathematical study of the sociology of bureaucracy and bureaucrats...
Winners included: Thomas N. Blodgett, David C. Campbell, Frank A. Crosson, Paul H. Epstein, Charles R. Halpern, Todd G. Lee, Gilbert W. Merkx, Richard J. V. C. Pescosolido and Roger D. Zeeman...
Frank H. Westheimer, Research Professor of Chemistry, received the largest individual grant, $42,000. Others to benefit from the Foundation grants include George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Herbert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology; R. Duncan Luce, lecturer on Social Relations; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Chairman of the Institute for Research in Experimental and Applied Botany...
...Donald P. Kircher, 42, vice president of Singer Manufacturing Co. since 1952, was picked as president to succeed 67-year-old Milton C. Lightner (see Management). Kircher, whose latest assignment has been overseeing Singer's current overseas expansion (Brazil, Japan, the Philippines and Australia) as Lightner's assistant, was born in St. Paul, Minn., graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1939, joined the Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. He served 21 months in Europe during World War II as a tank commander, was twice wounded, returned to the U.S. with three Silver Stars...