Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Grant Withers, 55, once popular cinemactor who in 1930 eloped with 17-year-old Loretta Young, eventually chalked up five wrecked marriages, hit the bottle ("They threw a net over me and hauled me to a sanitarium"), was reclaimed by his friend John Wayne, who got him parts in Wayne pictures (Wake of the Red Witch, Fort Apache); by his own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); in North Hollywood...
Industrial Wire & Cable Ltd., and Providence's Grant Money Meters Co. (toll-road coin boxes). Universal estimates that earnings for the fiscal year ending in March will rise 56% to about $3,900,000, or $2 per share. That means Universal stock sells at a steep 48^ times earnings; Chesler's $1,000,000 ante in Universal has zoomed to a market value near $25 million...
...Lady Jackson in private life--had published her book Faith and Freedom and had just completed a term as Visiting Lecturer on Government. This year the noted corresponding editor of the Economist is back for her third spring in Cambridge. The visit is the result of a Carnegie Foundation Grant, administered through Radcliffe, making it possible for Miss Ward "to look into various aspects of economic assistance programs and their effectiveness in relation to American long-term policy." Work under the Grant causes her to divide her time between Washington, UN Headquarters in New York, and Cambridge...
...Washington I'm pretty much exploring my way at the moment. For the first eighteen months of the work under the grant, I'll probably be concerned with knitting together Western assistance to India." India has just had two poorly organized five-year plans, she explains, and is about to develop a third. "There is no reason why a Marshall Plan Commission couldn't be set up to help the next plan," she says, and thereby help develop a better organized and potentially more successful program. "As neighbors, this is what we ought to do--not wait until there...
While at Harvard, Lady Jackson is mainly concerned with helping John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, in his seminar on underdeveloped countries, Economics 287. In general, however, her work under the Carnegie Grant concerns both "the studying and propagating of ideas coming up about foreign relations," she explains. "Both Carnegie and I agreed that there are considerable ideas on the subject today, but few ways of projecting them...