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...give and take, a sway over the footlights," he recalls. "They felt something, that I was one of them, that I was giving them no lies, that I was not one of the programmed society." Last year he spent a week with the experimental Living Arts Program in the Dayton, Ohio, public schools, teaching youngsters of different ages and talking to them about Viet Nam, rock, sex, pot, religion, race. To a group of music haters, he explained that Bach must have had a lot of sex to have 20 children. That kind of approach, says Hollander, at least jarred...
Cold Shoulder. Atlanta-born Parks grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His father was a wine steward, his mother a some time domestic servant. After working his way through Ohio State ('39); he joined the Pabst Brewing Co. and later headed a small group of Negro salesmen who cultivated ghetto markets for the firm. After settling in Baltimore in 1944, he started the sausage firm in 1951. Just what he did during the years between is a bit vague...
Michael A. Ponsor '68-4 of Eliot House and Minneapolis, Minn., Paul F. Saba '69 of Eliot House and Brockton, and Barth D. Schwartz '69 of Adams House and Dayton, Ohio are among the 32 national winners of the award...
Exciting Adventure. Although it became publicly held last fall, Dayton's is still largely a family affair, with six Day tons holding down management positions. To keep them straight, employees customarily refer to the company president as "Mr. Bruce," to Edward Dayton, the 28-year-old general manager of the bookstore division, as "Mr. Edward," and so on. What links all of them besides blood ties is the conviction, as Executive Vice President "Mr. Ken" puts it, that "shopping is the great American pastime and should be an exciting adventure...
...help make it so, Dayton's joined with other Minneapolis merchants last fall to develop a downtown shopping mall, graced it with a "mobile-stabile" Alexander Calder sculpture and remodeled its main store so that passersby could look directly into colorful boutiques rather than at mere window-display manikins. For the past two Christmases, it has outfitted the store's 12,000-sq.-ft. auditorium with a $250,000 "Dickens Village," complete with two-story, thatched-roof buildings and animated figures of Scrooge, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist. It recently staged an extravaganza for college-age youths, featuring...