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...long time before finding my niche." Growing up in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Rabi was "always making things." After studying chemistry at Cornell (B. Chem., 1919), he got a job with a chemical firm "analyzing furniture polish and mother's milk," tried running an abortive weekly newspaper ("a nonprofit organization") and even a private banking concern. "And then came the vision." Rabi returned to graduate school "and found physics and myself...
...nonprofit, nondenominational religious organization called the Partnership Foundation announced a contest open to clergymen and religious educators of all faiths and offering prizes totaling $40,250 (first: $10,000) for an answer to the questions: "How can man be made and kept conscious of the presence of God within him? How can man be inspired to accept the Partnership of God and practice the presence of God-promote a way of life that gives practical expression to the God-force within him? How can children be made to believe 'God is my ever-present Partner...
...INDUSTRY LURE is being pioneered by Maine and watched closely by other states. Bucking tight-money pinch, Maine legislature passed law to have state insure up to 90% of loans made for construction of new factories. Loans will be made to nonprofit corporations set up by Maine communities to hold title to a plant, lease it back to the new industry...
...sort of reconnaissance raid into the North, a passel of Georgians gleefully stopped off in Seattle and Kansas City, Mo. last week, publicized a weird scheme for counterattacking the damyankees. As the schemers explained it, a Georgia nonprofit corporation, American Resettlement Foundation, Inc., is going to buy houses in upper-income Northern suburbs and rent the places cheap to Negro families hauled up from Georgia...
...mystery-reading kick, the American Library in Paris fed her doses of 18 whodunits a week; Poet Stephen Vincent Benét researched John Brown's Body within its walls, and Molotov once checked out an almanac. Since its start in 1920, the American Library-a nonprofit, privately operated institution now located on the Champs-Elysées-has been an outpost of U.S. culture that has soothed homesick tourists, stimulated bored expatriates, and provided facts-good or bad-about the U.S. to anyone who dropped...