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...success only because of family. In the case of David Rockefeller, bankers hold him in high esteem in his own right." Echoes Harold H. Helm, chairman of Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., an arch Chase Manhattan rival: "David is an effective, able all-round banker, who makes keener competition for us because of his ability." With a touch of Latin hyperbole, a Caracas banker enthuses: "Rockefeller is the most important and capable banker in New York, therefore in the world." Painful Burden. Such freely given trib utes to anyone named Rockefeller would have warmed the heart of David...
Curses for Friends. Last week a touch of mass schizophrenia rubbed off on West Berliners. Normally they are a cynical, cocksure breed who thumb their noses at trouble. "Mir kann keener," they brag in the local dialect. "No one can push me around." In 17 years as a cockpit of the cold war, West Berlin has usually reacted more coolly to its recurring alarums than Washington or Whitehall. Even the Wall seemed barely to have dented the city's composure...
...campaign for last February's general election, 72-year-old Nehru on several occasions has been bedridden for weeks at a time. Though he has recently regained much of his old bounce, and even brags that his health is "extraordinarily good," the guessing game about his successor was keener than ever last week...
...terms of quality, however, the seminary picture is brighter; there are indications that the young men called to the ministry today are keener of mind and firmer of purpose than their predecessors. Many seminaries are raising their entrance requirements-among them, the Missouri Synod Lutherans' Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, whose dean, the Reverend Leonard C. Wuerffel, feels that the current crop of seminarians are being better trained than they have been in at least 20 years...
...giants of the U.S. rubber industry-U.S. Rubber and B. F. Goodrich-both had reduced earnings. But, said Goodrich's President J. W. Keener: "The recession has bottomed out for us and most of the rubber industry. We expect the trends to be upward for the rest of 1961." Celanese Corp.'s President Harold Blancke, reporting a profit of 32? a share v. 50? a year ago, noted that his company's earnings trend had been picking up since January...