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...ranch in Pasadena, Calif.-where he has lived off & on since 1911-Paul Hoffman spent a weekend mulling over a big problem. The trustees of the $500 million Ford Foundation, of which he was president, had decided that foundation headquarters should be moved from Pasadena to Manhattan, to be closer to the center of most foundation enterprises...
...office and desk he left (as Studebaker president) in 1948 to become Harry Truman's ECAdministrator. Hoffman accepted, will commute to the Studebaker main plant in South Bend, Ind., do part of his work at the branch plant in Los Angeles-and keep his residence in Pasadena...
...years ago, President Conant awoke to find a steamroller on his lawn, kindness of M.I.T. Recently, the children of Lt. Col. Arthur Small, ROTC director, California Institute of Technology, discovered on the lawn of their Pasadena home a life-size, F-84 Thunderjet, minus its wings. The police and F.B.I. finally traced the gift back to ten California Tech students. The Techmen admitted stealing it from a campus exhibition...
...ultra-conservative committee formed to stop the efforts of radical groups to "foist a foreign concept into the school system," appeared this week to be further complicating the much-publicized Pasadena. California progressive education dispute...
...last week's cover story on Wilder, the tables were turned. Interviewed in Pasadena, Hutchins announced to a TIME correspondent: "I am the greatest living authority on Thornton Wilder. I think it is true that he is my best living friend; all the others have drunk themselves to death...