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...responsible for Hunt's spectacular leap into the big time is its unspectacular owner and president: black-haired, aggressive Norton Simon, 38. When he bought control of Hunt in 1942, many housewives had never heard of Hunt Products. Simon told them by billboard, newspaper and radio so loudly and effectively that "Hunt for the Best" became a household slogan. One result: the West Coast, all but drinking Hunt's tomato sauce like milk, now buys almost half of the 100 million cans a year they sell (nearly five cans per capita...
...Cecil Norton Broy ("Americans United Inc."; membership: 25). To her the pact "provides for dirty Big Five domination...
...small rock. All students are required to take five years of Latin, may take a sixth. The six-year curriculum also includes science, history, mathematics, English, Greek, modern languages. The only other courses are ethics for first-year students, cartography for seniors. Roxbury's present Headmaster George Norton Northrop, proud of his boys' consistent high marks in college entrance examinations, is calmly confident that the prep-school trend is "away from so-called progressive education." High point of the celebration this week was to be a performance (but in English) of Aristophanes' Clouds. Students dressed as roosters...
Such facts, enforced by documents and charts, were offered as testimony last week at a Congressional hearing on the $300,000,000-a-year federal school-aid bill. Conclusion drawn by the chief witness, Columbia University's Dr. John K. Norton : federal aid is the only remedy...
...despite Dr. Norton's persuasiveness, chances for federal aid seemed little brighter than during all the years (the last hearing was eight years ago) that educators have quarreled about it. Although the bill stipulates that state and local control shall remain inviolate, archconservatives fear the bogey of federal control of schools; some Catholics are afraid that their parochial schools would suffer; many a Congressman suspects selfish motives in the bill's main lobbyist, the National Education Association, whose membership is composed overwhelmingly of teachers (who stand to gain a $200-million-a-year boost in total salaries...