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...world's richest private charitable institution opened up its bankbooks for the first time last week and gave the public a quick peek. In its annual report, Detroit's Ford Foundation, set up in 1936 with a $25,000 gift from the late Edsel B. Ford, announced that it now had $492,678,255 in the till. Most of it represents 3,089,908 non-voting shares of Ford Motor Co. stock, given by the Ford family and currently valued at $135 a share. So far, the foundation, which Paul Hoffman heads, has given out $42 million...
...weighs too much (215 Ibs.); he balloons out too far at the middle (44-in. waist). A bashful mustache perches below his nose. His mouth, always ready to smile, surrounds a small boy's teeth, with the necessary aperture in the center for whistling and spitting. Elfin ears peek selfconsciously around his rosy Pooh cheeks. He dresses in department-store suits, noisy ties and unshined shoes...
...test is much more fun if you don't peek...
...registration gave outsiders their first peek at Macmillan's financial statement. In the last ten years, its gross had risen from $6.8 million to $13.2 million in 1950. Net profit last year was $627,700; dividends totaled $1.50 a share. Macmillan had been able to pay a regular dividend every year since 1898 by concentrating on the educational and textbook field, where the profit margin is higher than that for trade (i.e., general reader) books...
...suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven-year-old Actor Ray, who is altogether winning as the grimy orphan who wants a peek at the mother of the British Empire...