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...kingdom of the Saguenay, aluminum is king and Arvida is its capital. Named for Arthur Vining Davis, 80-year-old founder of Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd. ("Alcan"),* Arvida has two aspects. As a company town it is one of the best laid out and best run on the continent. Its schools (for adults as well as children) and recreation facilities are topnotch...
...fact that puzzles or annoys many a Marxist: that British Socialists seem to get more inspiration from the New Testament than from Das Kapital. The founder of Britain's Labor Party, the late Keir Hardie, was a serious Christian who denounced class warfare. Last week, 77 Labor members of Parliament proved that Hardie's tradition is still very much alive. Calling themselves the "Parliamentary Socialist Christian Group," the 77 published a plain-speaking pamphlet. Its theme: Christians should be in politics, and Labor should be their party...
...editorial board, headed by Gerard Piel, former LIFE science editor, and backers who included Lessing J. Rosenwald and Bernard Baruch, Scientific American hoped to bring science into 100,000 armchairs. Inside the sleek, four-color cover of its May issue were well-illustrated articles on such topics as Vesalius, founder of modern anatomy; the Amazon River; the "dust cloud" theory of the formation of planetary systems. First press run: 100,000 copies, including 40,000 for subscribers...
Married. Hans Kindler, 55, founder and conductor of Washington's 17-year-old National Symphony Orchestra; and Persis Myers Hill, 37, symphony-loving socialite; each for the second time; in Kensington...
Many Harvard AVC members wield their influence elsewhere around the College, but when they do, they speak as individuals, not as AVC representatives. Its New England Regional Chairman, Arnold Rivkin, is also co-founder of the Law School group for Douglas, while State AVC Chairman Andrew Rice 2G is a member of the National Executive Committee for Eisenhower. Manny Margolis (Wallace) and Hale Knight (Stassen) are two others active within the AVC fold...