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...idea can be traced to Detroit Car Dealer William M. Packer, who in 1950 dunned 100 friends for $100 apiece to aid the widow and newborn child of a murdered rookie patrolman. That started what is now a 453-member Detroit Hundred Club, with annual dues of $150 and a treasury of more than $300,000. So far, the club has given 77 widows and their children $321,000 for everything from unpaid mortgages to scholarships and cash for unpaid bills. It covers Michigan state troopers as well as policemen and firemen in Detroit and 50 nearby communities...
...Packer's idea has been copied in 18 other cities as diverse as Cleveland, Memphis, Louisville, Indianapolis, Akron, New York and Orlando, Fla., though not yet in Dallas. Last month it was taken to Phoenix by a newly arrived charter member of the Detroit club. Just eight days after 100 citizens started the Phoenix Hundred Club, it handed its first $1,000 check to Mrs. Herman Nofs, widow of a 71-year-old deputy marshal who was murdered by his own gun in a scuffle with teen-age burglars in nearby Youngstown, Ariz. Deputy Nofs's death stirred...
...Conant convinced was George Packer Berry (A.B., Princeton, '21; M.D., Johns Hopkins, '25) who had almost as much experience as a patient as he had as a physician. A microbiologist, Berry had suffered a miserable, lingering attack of psittacosis ("parrot fever") and another of hepatitis while studying viral infections...
When George Packer Berry steps down as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the end of this academic year, he will have completed sixteen years of a memorable Harvard tenure. James Bryant Conant called his 1949 appointment of Berry "the best job ever did on the administrative side while president of Harvard." And last year, President Pusey said: Rarely, in all Harvard's history has a department of the University contributed so much to advance the causes it serves as has the Harvard Medical School during its years under Dr. Berry...
...Lucky instead of a sweet." Whichever way they reach from now on, American Tobacco stands to benefit. Last week the nation's second largest cigarette maker (after R.J. Reynolds) moved to acquire Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. Consolidated is a vast (1964 sales: $634 million) packer, distributor and retailer of foods whose sweets range from Sara Lee bakery products to Union Sugar and Shasta beverages...