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...Cross. "Developments in recent disaster operations," he said severely, would force Red Cross to return to its prewar policy of making special fund drives to help stricken cities rather than continuing to furnish aid out of its general fund. As a case in point, Harriman pointed to Flint, Mich. When a disastrous tornado hit Flint last June, he said, the Red Cross spent $600,000 to help victims. Meanwhile, a special committee in Flint was raising more than $900,000 in relief funds. Did the Red Cross get any of its money back? Said Harriman: "Not one cent of this...
Mike Gorman, editor of the Flint Journal, snapped that Harriman had smeared Flint and the civic leaders who directed the local fund drive. Gorman attributed to Harriman a motive that might broaden the controversy. Said he: "Despicably, Mr. Harriman has used this disaster...
...desperate effort to retard the national development of federated giving (e.g., Community Chests). Undoubtedly, it is more than a coincidence that Flint and Michigan have been notable in the successful application of this principle." One Flint resident said that he would never give "another nickel" to Red Cross. Mas sachusetts' Governor Christian Herter de manded an apology to Worcester. Fund officials in all three cities acknowledged that they had turned only token sums over to the Red Cross. But they pointed out that the special funds went toward replacing losses suffered in the storm, edu cation of orphans, patching...
...Emily Flint, Managing Editor of the Alantic Monthly, will discuss opportunities in magazine writing and publishing. John P. Marquand, Jr. '46, author of the "Second Happiest Day," will talk about the novelist, alvin davis,m a reporter for the New Your Post and currently a Nieman Fellow, will speak on the life of a newspaper reporter...
...remarkable thing about them is their enormous age. The iron ore above the flint bed has been dated by Professor Patrick Hurley of M.I.T., who estimates that it is 1.3 billion years old. Since the fossil algae and fungi lie far below it, they are probably something like 2 billion years...