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...would be very curious as to what your readers think of the Brattle programming this summer. The management would certainly be interested to know. Cyrus I. Harvey, Jr. Brattle Theatre
Three chairs stood empty at the directors' meeting of the Curtis Publishing Co. in Philadelphia last week. They belonged to ill and aging Mary Curtis Bok Zimbalist, 85, daughter of the late Cyrus H.K. Curtis, who founded the company 71 years ago; to her son, Gary Bok, 57, who was also too ill to attend the meeting; and to President Robert E. MacNeal, 58, who was traveling in Europe. But even if all three had been there, the Curtis family and officers of the proud old company would have been in the minority-a position they had to accept...
...idea attracted Mrs. Emmons Blaine, daughter of Reaper Inventor Cyrus McCormick, who gave the colonel $1,000,000 to launch the Parker School in 1901. The colonel spawned all sorts of innovations in U.S. education-specialized teachers, morning assemblies, the teaching of art, music and drama...
Scholars who can read the cuneiform writing of ancient Babylon are already hard at work with Dr. Tuckerman's tables. Eventually they may check the dates of such events as Nebuchadnezzar's deportation of the Jews or Cyrus' capture of Babylon-sometimes, perhaps, to the very hour, Babylon Standard Time. They hope to reconstruct a detailed history of the almost forgotten Babylonian civilization, out of which grew the culture of Greece and modern Europe...
...U.M.W., a federal district court de cided, had used its power to discriminate against a small company (Tennessee's de funct Phillips Brothers Coal Co.) in favor of the big West Kentucky Coal Co., con trol of which had been acquired by Cleve land Industrialist Cyrus Eaton with mon ey lent him by the U.M.W. welfare fund...