Word: lear
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...capital investment. The public has proved its eagerness to give generously to charitable organizations which enjoy its trust. To date the question whether this trust is justified has not been raised. However, several sources, including two Rockefeller reports published in 1945 and 1960, and two recent articles by John Lear in the Saturday Review, and Dr. Robert Hamlin, an Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, present disturbing evidence of inefficiency and mismanagement among voluntary charitable health agencies...
...Lear's specific analysis of the operations of several voluntary health agencies is hardly more comforting. According to his article, James V. Lavin, president of the Massachusetts Branch of the American Cancer Society, divided his time between the Society and his own fund-raising agency which competed with it, receiving considerable income from both organizations. Several of Lavin's chief subordinates in the Society suffered from similar division of interests. Only through sustained pressure from a member of the board of directors did the Massachusetts Cancer Society make an even nominal change in this situation...
...results of such mismanagement were most unfortunate: of the $1,150,000 collected in the 1960 Massachusetts drive, $548,241 was spent for overhead. Further damaging evidence occurs in Lear's second article which reproduces the internal revenue form filled out by the Massachusetts Branch. This document, which even baffled a certified public accountant, contains the following figures: cost of operations--$1,368 (when the president's salary alone was $17,500), miscellaneous expenses--$599,752.33, cash on hand--$1,207,269.05 (in an organization which annually begs people for donations...
...Lear's article describes the activities of several other agencies as well and discloses exaggerated campaign claims and a niggardly payment policy on the part of the March of Dimes in addition to outright fraud on the part of the Kenny Foundation...
...Kean play King Lear, said Coleridge, "is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." To see Alfred Drake, in his one lamentable lapse of the evening, act Othello is to read Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a galaxy. Whether he is profile-preening for an expected lady love, slashing the air with his fencing foil, or parrying insults with the Prince of Wales, he has all the darkling dash, swagger and brio of a Renaissance man. He pours his voice like nut-brown ale through a melodic sieve...