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...Commerce, a square-faced, silver-haired newspaperman kept vigil last week while the chamber's board voted on a new president. When the vote was in, the newspaperman got a good story for his paper-and a surprise: he had been elected president. His name: Erwin Dain Canham, 55, deft-penciled, wide-ranging editor of the Christian Science Monitor and the first newspaperman in the chamber's long line of 32 presidents. Said Editor Canham: "I am intensely surprised but deeply grateful...
...Spike" Canham had a hint of what might happen. A member of the chamber's board of directors for the past 5½ years, he had been asked in January whether he would accept a nomination for the post. Canham went back to Boston, searched his own mind, and huddled with colleagues for several days to determine whether accepting would compromise his integrity as an editor. He decided that it would not, gave the green light...
...Cussing. Canham is a gentle, scholarly newsman who started in the trade at the age of eight by taking news items over the telephone for his father, a country publisher in Lisbon, Me. He joined the 17-year-old Monitor after graduation from Bates College in 1925, became the Monitor's managing editor at 37, its editor in 1945. A Christian Scientist who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses, Canham is one of journalism's busiest men. Besides editing the Monitor, he writes a column on international affairs, moderates a weekly TV program in Boston called Starring the Editors...
...Capitalism. Canham believes that modern U.S. capitalism is far different from the capitalism of half a century ago, and that it is still "in the state of evolution, cleaning up the many abuses of the past." He describes his economic philosophy as "very much in the middle," against too much power for both labor and management. He is in favor of "the freest possible market. There is a great danger of cartelism in the American economy and a great deal of concern over the problem of bigness." On the other hand, he does not believe that the closed or union...
Fighting inflation is on a par with assuring further economic growth as a national problem, says Canham. One big reason that both the problems of growth and unemployment must be solved: "The U.S. is involved in the greatest competitive struggle in history." Yet Canham favors liberalization of nonstrategic trade with Russia. Says he: "It is definitely in our national interest that the standard of living of the Russian people be improved. But that doesn't mean, for instance, that we should enable them to get into the world petroleum market. That wouldn't necessarily mean a better life...