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...question of substituting one set of problems for another," says Dr. Paul A. Krueger, development director for a St. Louis chemical company, who sloughs off business worries after hours as a city councilman in suburban Ferguson, Mo. More and more businessmen are finding painting an outlet for nervous energy. Eight Manhattan executives play in their own dance band. Across the U.S., businessmen's pastimes range from astronomy to zither playing, but they serve their purpose only when they consistently keep the mind away from moneymaking...
While handing money out to daughters of the Pennsy and others in need, foundations pay back their founders in many ways. A foundation not only gives its donor an outlet for generosity but saves him much of the annoyance of being solicited by a multitude of charities. It also helps him slide into a lower tax bracket. An individual may deduct up to 20% of his taxable income for payments into a foundation; a corporation may deduct 5%. In some cases, the saving in taxes almost equals the cost of philanthropy. A foundation can also be used...
...firm (Cetra-Soria), which five years later Soria sold to Capitol in a deal that reportedly involved $1 million. In 1953 Britain's giant Electric & Musical Industries Ltd., whose position in Europe is comparable to RCA's in the U.S., was looking around for a new U.S. outlet after getting divorced from Columbia. EMI eventually hitched up with Dario Soria, who became boss of its newly formed U.S. subsidiary. His wife Dorle gave up her long-standing job as press director for the Philharmonic-Symphony to take charge of Angel's artists, repertory and publicity...
...addition, organized athletics have traditionally offered an outlet to those with glandular fever and the Greenies spend much time this way, especially at crewing...
There are many reasons for the Democratic propagandists' concentration on Nixon. The most obvious is the political disadvantage of attacking a figure as popular as Eisenhower. Normal party antagonism has to find an outlet; Nixon has been it. Many liberal Democrats who changed their minds about the Alger Hiss case never stopped resenting the fact that Congressional Investigator Nixon arrived early at the conclusion they reached much later or that in the campaign Nixon most effectively pressed home the point that Adlai Stevenson was a character witness (by deposition) for Hiss at his first trial in 1952 and again...