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...Brightest?" Greenewalt came naturally by his scientific bent. His father, Dr. Frank Greenewalt, was resident physician at Philadelphia's Girard College. His mother, the former Mary Elizabeth Hallock, was a concert pianist, and patented her own invention, the use of varicolored lighting to harmonize with the moods of music. Both parents were old friends of Wilmington's Du Ponts; Mrs. Greenewalt's sister, Ethel Hallock, had married William K. du Pont, brother of Pierre, Lammot...
There were also new rumblings from Washington that steel companies are not expanding fast enough. Though Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was satisfied, Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. (for Crow) Girard Davidson, one of the Administration's top planners on steel and electric power, last week said that he was not. Said Davidson: by 1953 the U.S. will need 125 million tons of steel, but its capacity will be only 100 million tons...
...Slavic and German communities along the U.S. "polka circuit," nobody has to be told about Frankie Yankovic and his five-man polka band. In a year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in theaters, clubs and dance halls from Scranton, Pa. to Girard, Kans., and from Calumet, Mich, to the Ohio River. In big towns on the circuit, they have been known to outdraw such name bands as Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe 2 to i. In small mining and farming communities a Yankovic appearance can bring out a crowd that is twice the size...
Philadelphia's staid old Girard Trust Co. livened up its 112th annual report last year with Helen Hokinson cartoons gently kidding the customers (TIME, Jan. 31). With this sprightly innovation, Girard Trust won the 1949 "Oscar of Industry" award for the best financial report of any U.S. financial institution, and gained readers as far away as South Africa. This week, in its 113th annual report, Girard Trust turned the tables on itself. It ran cartoons by The New Yorker's Perry Barlow kidding its own officers, particularly vice presidents, topped things off with a guffaw at the hidebound...
...city's de facto government, set up an orphanage and a hospital for the poor, brought in food and medicines, cleaned up the filthy streets and buried the dead* -more than 5,000 of the 30,000 or so Philadelphians who had remained. Such men as Merchant Stephen Girard, French Refugee Dr. Devèze and former Negro Slaves Absalom Jones and Richard Allen worked with extraordinary heroism and leadership. As Author Powell discloses their steady gallantry, they take on the stature of American heroes...