Word: founder
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...Christmas firesides which I ought to fill." Dickens patented the plum-pudding vision of Christmas that reality so often mocks, sending millions into holiday funks. "It is good to be children sometimes," he wrote in A Christmas Carol "and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself...
Last week, for example, Opinia included in its seventh issue a sardonic history of Poland over the past 150 years that referred to the "temporary owners of the Polish nation" since 1944 who have used the "physical force that stands behind them." Another article discussed Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, who was of Polish extraction. It concluded: "We kindly ask you, leaders of the Polish People's Republic, stop building monuments and displaying pictures...
DIED. Donald Beates Watt, 84, founder of the Experiment in International Living, one of the first organizations to promote student exchange programs; after a long illness; in Lancaster, Pa. Founded in 1932, the organization has trained many Peace Corps volunteers, now numbers some 250,000 alumni from 100 nations...
DIED. John Franklin Wharton, 83, lawyer, author (Life Among the Playwrights) and inventive behind-the-scenes presence on Broadway; of emphysema; in Manhattan. As a member and founder of the prestigious law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, Wharton had a variety of businesses for clients. His longtime love of the theater and entrepreneurial genius made him an imaginative adviser and friend of producers, playwrights and songwriters. In 1938 he helped form the Playwrights Producing Co., which gave its member-writers (Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood and others) control over their own works through bypassing producers. More recently Wharton...
Donald Fantini, a member of the Cambridge School Committee and founder of the Fundamental School, said, "It will cost $80,000 to tear down the old Russell building. We might as well spend $300,000 and make a useful facility...