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...council, which began shortly after World War I (and publishes the quarterly review Foreign Affairs), is a nonprofit institution devoted to research and study of the international aspects of American political and economic problems. The purpose of the fellowship is to "help correspondents to increase their competence to report and interpret events abroad ... to give men who have been preoccupied with meeting deadlines an opportunity to broaden their perspective by means of a coordinated program of reading, study and informal discussion." Richardson will study at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and commute to New York...
...Trade. The credit for opening people's eyes to Canada's Eskimo artists goes to a Quebec artist named Jim Houston, 32, who first went to the Arctic in 1948. Fascinated by the exquisite little figures he saw, Houston brought back a few examples, persuaded the nonprofit Canadian Handicrafts Guild to put Eskimo carvings on sale. They sold like hotcakes, and each year Houston traveled north for more supplies. Later, the guild put out booklets filled with helpful advice to the Eskimo artists. Sample: "Man throwing harpoon, or spearing through ice ... If they are carefully carved and polished...
...hold the patents on staff members' discoveries in medicine and public health, Harvard University set up a special nonprofit corporation called Protein Foundation Inc., with Chester I. Barnard, onetime telephone tycoon (New Jersey Bell) and later head of the Rockefeller Foundation, as chairman. Much of its work will involve patents taken out by Biochemist Edwin J. Cohn, the world's top authority on blood fractions, relating to gamma globulin and methods of collecting and preserving blood substances...
...best friends' wives, Bart worries about his relations with his wife Mollie and wonders why she is growing so cold toward him "Oh Mollie!" he cries, "sing sweet across the wires to your baby." But Mollie is fed up with baby: her heart belongs to the nonprofit community center she hopes to found...
Author Kennedy's aim, it seems, is to warn Americans that neither sex nor success is the big thing in life. He suggests that Mollie, in her concern for nonprofit community centers, is on a much sounder tack than Bart. But these didactic reflections should not seriously interfere with the sale of the book, either in hard covers or in the inevitable paperback reprints...