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Year ago, hired by the U. S. Rural Electrification Administration, Documentarian Ivens marched his crew onto the small dairy and crop farm of lean, leathery William Parkinson in the rolling hills of eastern Ohio. Purpose: to show the rich rewards brought to the Parkinsons by the Federal Government's rural-electrification program. During the first half of Ivens' casual 36-minute report, the Parkinsons plod through their chores with such outmoded equipment as kerosene lamps, a wood-burning stove, a backyard privy, an old hand pump to the water well. One day the farmers are told about...
...Bicentennial, for $12,500,000, to extend its research, strengthen its teaching, build new buildings. Despite the efforts of Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner who has served the university as president since 1930 without pay, of Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., drive chairman, of Thomas I. Parkinson, president of Equitable Life, and of John Price Jones, high-powered professional fund raiser, the drive last week fell far short of its goal. Total raised: $5,035,000. Borne out were recent warnings by President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University of Chicago that U. S. universities faced a decline in gifts...
...democracy is their favorite, though only a brand new reader of novels would find anything new on the subject. In the worst of them, Charles Francis Stocking's Out of the Dust (Maestro, Chicago, $2.75), an American in Germany huffs & puffs through an interminable, blowhard melodrama. Frances Parkinson Keyes's The Great Tradition (Messner, $2.50) pictures in drawing room prose the democratic gropings of a German-U. S. aristocrat in Germany and revolutionary Spain. A cut above them is W. Townend's Rescue of Captain Leggatt (Morrow, $2.50), naively melodramatizing the enmity and brotherly reconciliation...
...President Edward D. Duffield, Prudential Insurance Co. of America; Chairman Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; President John M. Franklin, International Mercantile Marine Co.; President Robert M. Hanes, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.; President Robert Wood Johnson, Johnson & Johnson; President Sydney G. McAllister,International Harvester Co.; President Thomas I. Parkinson, Equitable Life Assurance Society; Chairman William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust Co.; Chairman S. Clay Williams, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Chairman Clarence M. Woolley, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.; Chairman Owen D. Young, General Electric...
Since modern financing of Culture is an elaborate business, President Gates appointed as general drive chairman Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., as national alumni committee head Equitable Life's President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson. Then he hired the John Price Jones money-raising organization, which started a year ago approaching Penn's 55.000 alumni. By this week, when the campaign formally opened, $1,000,000 of the $12,500,000 had already been raised. To take three years, the drive is timed to culminate in the University's bicentennial celebration...