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...Chicago federal court that ordered the Du Pont Co. to surrender control of its 63 million shares of General Motors stock (TIME, March 9) also suggested a way. Last week Du Pont President Crawford Greenewalt announced that the company would follow Judge Walter La Buy's proposal to distribute the G.M. shares among Du Pont stockholders. In July, Du Pont will distribute the first 23 million on the basis of half a G.M. share for each Du Pont share. There will be two or three more such distributions before the February 1965 deadline set by the judge. Each holder...
Died. Jesse Crawford, 66, paragon of U.S. theater organists, who rose from cornetist in a Seattle orphanage to the gilded consoles of the movie palaces' mightiest Wurlitzers without formal keyboard training, earned as much as $150,000 a year as the brilliantined virtuoso of the treacle-to-thunder style he called "the violets and Wagner stuff"; of a heart attack; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...academy responded warmly to the Earl of Crawford's letter ("We've always wanted to keep this great work in Britain"), and reduced its price to a mere ?800,000. If this sum is not raised, however, the drawing will go on the block after all. "A pretty stiff bargain," sniffed the Daily Herald, but then went on to decry the whole by-jingo fuss: "There is something slightly ridiculous about the present outburst of patriotic excitement to retain this Italian drawing, for the national habit is to get art on the cheap." The Herald might have added...