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Patrick M. Malin, civic leader, executive director, American Civil Liberties Union ....................................................................................... L.H.D...
Died. Charles Gulp Burlingham, 100, New York lawyer, civic reformer for half a century who urged pacemaking social legislation (childlabor, minimum-wage laws), headed a group of public-spirited New Yorkers (Fusionists) who successfully backed anti-Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained...
...applied public relations will become increasingly important to Harvard as Program-financed buildings replace ramshackle houses in the declining residential areas near the University. To meet the need for a person to sell Harvard to the city, President Pusey last summer created a new post, Administrative Assistant for Civic Affairs, and appointed to it, Charles P. Whitlock, then Senior Tutor of Dudley House...
Career: Joined Philadelphia's solid Drexel & Co. investment house, sold securities, rose to partner in 1940, became a civic wheelhorse in Philadelphia's Associated Hospital Service, Child Guidance Clinic, Boy Scouts, Navy League, also served as a private in the National Guard. Commissioned in Navy intelligence in 1942, he sailed in major campaigns (Southern France, Philippines, Okinawa, Iwo Jima), performed gallantly (two Bronze Stars), was mustered out as a commander after 42 months, rose to captain in the Reserve and retired...
...picnic takes place on the go-acre estate of one "Pop" Larkin (Paul Douglas), a beer-bellied, golden-hearted. Godsend-payday paragon of the old-fashioned vices: civic irresponsibility and the right to shirk. Inevitably, the Internal Revenue Service (Tony Randall) tries to catch up with him. "I'd like to look at your books," says tight-lipped Tony, the perfect black-shoe bureaucrat. Douglas looks puzzled. "I don't do much reading," he replies. But Tony forges ahead, deeper and deeper into a slough of Southern hospitality...