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...Farthest Poles. One experienced observer of the controversy is the Catholic Press Association's outgoing president, Charles McNeill of Dayton, Ohio, general manager of a firm publishing Catholic children's magazines. "Diocesan newspapers have called Commonweal Communist," says he, "and some of the Jesuits have claimed that America has sold out to the Commies. I have been called brutal, blasphemous, unscrupulous and monstrous, for publicly defending the right of laymen to run magazines like Commonweal. Because of my job, they have even called me a perverter of the minds of Catholic children." At the farthest poles are Brooklyn...
...gained altitude fast. Earnings climbed 47% in 1953 to $1,410,345, and though sales dropped 44% the following year, profits fell only 4%, held at a satisfactory $1,360,241. Frank Piasecki's 20-passenger H21 Workhorse swept helicopter honors for speed and altitude at the 1953 Dayton Air Show, and Piasecki ranked as the No. 1 manufacturer of big transport helicopters. But inside the executive suite raged a struggle for control: Piasecki men v. Rockefeller men. In March 1955 Frank Piasecki lost even the board chairmanship to President Berlin. Four months later, almost completely shorn of power...
Another Phi Beta Kappa member, E. Leo Slaggie, Jr., of Lowell House and Dayton, Ohio, received the Palfrey exhibition given annually to the most distinguished scholar in the Senior Class who also holds a stipendiary scholarship" in honor of John G. Palfrey, Class of 1815. Last year Slaggie was the winner of the Silver debating medal. He is active in the Band and the Mountaineering Club...
Brown's field of concentration is History and Literature, Siler's History, and Slaggie's, Physics. Brown is a graduate of Groton School, Siler, of Ascalanes High School in California, Slaggie, of Oakwood High School, Dayton...
...Hard Way. In Dayton, Charles Balke was arrested after he cracked into three garages, rammed into the side of a house, careened across three lawns, ran down a rosebush, bounced off a tree, crunched into a parked convertible-all in an attempt to put his car in his garage...