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...that two years ago was hovering dangerously close to bankruptcy. But last week, Defiance played host to a man who had traveled 575 miles to lay the cornerstone of its new library. "I am here," explained President Dwight Eisenhower, "because of my affection and admiration for Kevin and Ruth McCann...
...last two years, Defiance has come to have a good deal of affection for the McCanns, too. Since Kevin McCann took over as president in 1951, the college has begun to hum with new hope. An industrial engineer who enlisted...
Army private in 1942 and rose to become Eisenhower's personal assistant* and biographer (Man from Abilene), energetic Kevin McCann, 49, has dedicated himself to the once unlikely proposition that Defiance...
...those who like a cozy novel with a basically predictable outcome, there is Elizabeth Goudge's The Heart of the Family (Coward-McCann). Author Goudge has a highly developed bestseller touch, and her simple story of family life in England is just what her fans might have ordered. As far from the Goudge world as possible is the African world of First Novelist Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Grove), a world of myth, legend and fantasy. The language is odd and flavorsome, as befits a book whose hero drinks 225 kegs of palm wine every...
...Leonard F. Erikson, 56, vice president of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson advertising agency, was picked as head of the State Department's Voice of America at $13,000 a year. Erikson (no kin to the late Alfred W. Erickson, one of the agency's founders) graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1920) and Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, was sales manager for CBS before he joined McCann-Erickson as boss of its radio & TV department...