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Gratitude & Devotion. Most colorful visitors at the opening last week were the Russian and Eastern Orthodox representatives-bearded patriarchs like Archimandrite Vitaly of Russia, Archbishop Panteleimon of Greece and Metropolitan Germanos, Greek Orthodox exarch for Western Europe. Largest national block is the 78 bishops from the U.S. led by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. Many of the Americans brought wives & children along (their billeting, in universities and private homes, has been the special concern of Mrs. William Temple, widow of the late Archbishop of Canterbury). While the bishops deliberate in Lambeth Palace, their wives will have a conclave at High...
...world's largest commercial airport opened last week. Its official name was New York International Airport, but millions of New Yorkers knew it as "Idlewild," the name of a golf course that it displaced. The 4,900-acre airport (on Long Island, 38 minutes' drive from Manhattan's Airlines Terminal) covers an area as large as Manhattan Island from 42nd Street to the Battery; its 35 all-weather krypton flash approach lights (3,300,000,000 peak beam candlepower) are the brightest ever made by man. Idlewild's ten miles of paved runways (six strips completed...
...Providing electric power for the world's largest individual aluminum plant...
...could he get away with it? One reason was Avery's unquestionable genius for success. In 17 years he had built Ward's from a debt-ridden store to the second largest mail-order house in the U.S. Last year it had a record $59 million profit. No individual owns more than 1% of the stock and no company or estate more than 2%. The 6.6 million shares are scattered among 68,500 holders, the biggest of them investment trusts...
Massachusetts Investors Trust, largest Ward stockholder (104,000 shares), finally decided last week that it was time to move. It sent two of its trustees to Chicago to investigate. "We are very much disturbed," said Chairman Merrill Griswold, "that some of [Ward's] directors, out of what seems to be a mistaken sense of loyalty to their oldtime associate, Mr. Avery, are overlooking their duties to the general stockholder...