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Last week 170 such nativity scenes were on view at the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Mo. They are, with few exceptions, from the collection of Architect-Designer Alexander Girard, whose Santa Fe home is filled with a vast assortment of folk art. Hallmark Cards sponsored the exhibition for the benefit of the People-to-People Program, which has its headquarters in Kansas City. The idea was a happy one: in this one show, the people of 20 different lands are bound together by a single theme, and the exhibition is the most popular the gallery...
...trustbusters?though the law gives them no clear authority to prevent bank mergers?have tried to stop them. Justice has filed test cases against the proposed marriage of Continental Illinois National Bank and the City National Bank in Chicago, against the merger of the Philadelphia National Bank and the Girard Trust, and against that of the First National Bank and Security Trust Co. of Lexington...
...attempts to block such mergers. Despite their defeats, trustbusters had high hopes of winning a meticulously prepared suit against a Philadelphia bank merger. That merger would create the city's biggest bank, linking the Philadelphia National (now second largest with assets of $1.2 billion) and the third-ranking Girard Trust Corn Exchange (assets: $853 million). Together these two banks, said Justice, would be 50% larger than First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co., now in first place, and control 37% of Philadelphia's banking business...
...Cerulean Stream. To many readers a generation ago, the publishing capital of the U.S. was the tiny southeast Kansas town of Girard (pop. 2,500), whence Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books issued in a smudgy, cerulean stream that sometimes reached 65,000 a day. In newspaper ads from coast to coast he ran his enticing list of titles-eventually more than 2,000-and invited readers to clip the coupons. Among those who did were the late Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who took a supply to the South Pole, and a Texas oilman who bought 14 packages...
...never intended to be a capitalist. Son of an immigrant Russian-Jewish bookbinder, Emanuel Julius left school with a grammar school education, drifted around in the free-thinking Socialist currents of his time. He tried reporting for Socialist newspapers in Milwaukee and New York, in 1915 went out to Girard, Kans., to help resuscitate Appeal to Reason, a moribund Socialist periodical. After marrying Marcet Haldeman, a Girard banker's daughter, he borrowed $250,000 from her to buy the paper...