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...Percy D. O'Connell retired as president but will remain board chairman and consultant. Critical of sagging sales and profits (last year's net was down $2,251,155 from 1952), Garfinkle and associates spent millions to gain stock control of the company, biggest U.S. magazine distributor. Victor D. Ziminsky will stay on as president of the firm's wholly owned subsidiary, Union News Co., which runs newsstand and restaurant concessions as well as Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza skating rink. As a boy, Garfinkle helped support his widowed mother by selling papers to Staten Island ferry...
Died. Josiah Willard Hayden, 81, president (since 1937) of the $70 million Charles Hayden Foundation (founded by his bachelor brother, Wall Street Financier Charles Hayden), distributor of some $20 million of the foundation's money for the "well-being, uplifting and development of boys and young men"; of injuries suffered in an auto accident; in Arlington, Mass...
...Before the Massachusetts Commission on Communism, she said that she never formerly resigned from the Party, nor has she modified her beliefs. The Commission's repjort said that she "admitted that she had held various offices in branches of the Communist party, had been chairman, secretary, treasurer, literary distributor of various branches at various times in New York State and in Massachusetts...
...selfish goals of individuals into larger, more social and spiritual objectives for the group . . . Conflicts are resolved by relating the immediate to the long-range and more enduring values." Faced with this assignment of relating his product to his God, many a chewing gum manufacturer, comic-book publisher, movie distributor or banker might well fall to his knees. But, says Ohmann, this would all be to the good...
...fellow-traveling Director Hideo Sekigawa, produced by the then Communist-run Japanese Teachers Union, and acted by dozens of A-bomb survivors who offered their services free, Hiroshima originally contained so many gruesome horrors and so anti-American a line that Japan's Education Ministry protested. No reputable distributor would agree to handle it, and the left-wing company that finally took it over has since gone bankrupt...