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Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), spectacled Father Young, 41, became rector of St. Dun-stan's, the "mother church of the East End," six months ago and lost no time startling as many of his 19,000 parishioners as possible with his Americanophile movie-fanning. When he is not studying the King James version of the Bible, he is likely to be deep in the pages of Variety, the bible of U.S. show business. "We have a good deal in common, the church and the entertainment world, in one sense at least," he says. "We must both proclaim...
...earnings in the company's history. President Ralph J. Cordiner predicted that G.E.'s profits for the entire year would be better than in 1953. For those whose earnings were down, the drop was usually less, percentagewise, than the drop in sales. There were other encouraging signs. Dun & Bradstreet announced that department-store sales for the Easter season were equal to those last year. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents reported, for the third month in a row, that the majority of their members reported an increase in orders...
...committee to which Fox was named is headed by Edwin B. George, of Dun and Bradstreet...
...Chevrolet plant were put on a four-day week, Cadillac buyers were told they would have to wait two months for the most expensive models, longer for lower-priced Cadillacs. Another optimistic note: Construction in January hit $2.4 billion-up 3% from a year ago. And a Dun & Bradstreet survey of 1,315 top executives showed that 46% expected second-quarter business to be better than a year ago, 32% expected no change. Only 22% looked for a drop...
Died. Manabendra Nath Roy, 61, onetime member of the Moscow Soviet and a leading member of the Comintern's Second Congress (1920), later (1929) expelled from the party for right-wing deviationism; of cerebral thrombosis; at Dehra Dun, India...