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Died. David Ford Bond, 57, leathery-voiced NBC newscaster who from 1929 to 1952 proved one of the most versatile voices in the business, announcing everything from soap operas (Just Plain Bill) to the World Series, a lifelong Republican who managed the campaign radio and TV arrangements for Thomas Dewey in 1948 and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952; of a heart attack; in St. Croix, Virgin Islands...
Since work began in May, volunteer chapel builders have put in more than 500 hours of hard labor on Saturdays, Thursday evenings, and early mornings, mostly on such relatively simple tasks as painting and pouring concrete. Utah's Governor George Dewey Clyde, who lives in the ward, put in one enthusiastic session with a shovel. Henry D. Moyle. an oil company millionaire who is counselor to Church President David McKay, has been over to the chapel project twice, promises to do some carpentering later...
...contract came to $100,000 a year, but in yen it added up to 35.7 million7#151;and that was too rich for Japan's Diet. With regrets and thanks for past services. Japanese parliamentarians canceled Thomas E. Dewey's contract as a legal consultant to JETRO (Japan External Trade Agency). Hired in August 1959, the two-time Republican presidential candidate, who now practices law in New York, helped the Japanese land a $3.8 million contract to supply ship-towing locomotives to the Panama Canal Co., worked hard to counter efforts to restrict imports of cheap transistors...
...John Dewey was worriedly deploring the excesses of progressive education. He was right. Yet the best of his ideas survive and thrive-not in the few U.S. schools that still seem to be straight out of Auntie Mame, but in such well-ordered citadels of learning as Chicago's private Francis W. Parker School...
Character & Community. Parker owes its name and ideas to Francis W. Parker, a New England schoolmaster, whom Dewey himself called "the father of progressive education.'' Colonel Parker-he won the rank as a Union officer in the Civil War-was less a Dewey-style theorist than an artist with children. His talent revealed itself in his famed 1870s reform of the rote-taught schools of Quincy, Mass. Said he: "The primary concern of education is character. A school should be a model home, a complete community, an embryonic democracy...