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Francis P. Locke '33, chairman of the Dayton, Ohio Club's School Committee, warned that if the new program is implemented, "Harvard is going to lose good boys at the first hurdle. The Harvard idea requires a good deal of cultivation. We persuade students to apply and then later persuade them to come...
...full flush of victory, Ohio's U.S. Senator-elect George H. Bender bubbled off a letter to Richard Cull, Dayton News political reporter: "Dear Dick - This is just a note to thank you for all you did in my behalf during the senatorial campaign. I valued the endorsement of the News, and feel sure that you had something to do with my obtaining it. Indeed, I am grateful, and hope that I may continue to merit the approval of your paper and yourself. With fondest regards, I am cordially, George H. Bender...
Elemental Conspiracy. Some candidates have come up with the wrong answers-and are now in trouble. Ohio's Republican Representative Paul Schenck burned with righteous-and, he thought, politically profitable-indignation when his home town was insulted by a federal planner who said Dayton's slums were the worst on the U.S. mainland. Schenck demanded that the man be fired; then he got back home to learn that thousands of Daytonians agreed with the planner. Result: Schenck is in a close, hard race, with public housing as the biggest issue...
Bender recently bounced out on the platform of Dayton's Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church, beamed down on perhaps 75 persons, and said hoarsely: "Don't worry. I'm not going to sing." He read a couple of pages of his prepared text, stopped and asked: "You don't want to hear this, do you?" At best, the audience seemed indifferent, so Bender scrapped his script, began pacing around, pounding on the rostrum, on the walls and on a nearby piano. He talked extemporaneously, mostly about singing. Said Cleveland-born Bender: "We don't hold...
Baseball teams and bowling leagues are by no means the only things that companies offer. For its 12,000 Dayton workers, National Cash Register Co. runs a 166-acre park with picnic grounds, swimming pool and two 18-hole golf courses, is now planning a field house for winter sports. International Business Machines Corp. has three country clubs for its workers, charges membership fees of $1 a year for employees, $1 for wives (or husbands), and 25-50? for each child. Detroit Edison Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California provide yacht clubs. The employee-run Convair Recreation Association owns...