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...Peace Corps in India; Robert E. Dunn, principal of William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, Conn.; James Lewis Jr., district principal of the Wyandanch, N. Y., Public Schools; Jack McCurdy, education writer for the Los Angeles Times: Norman A. Newberg, specialist in education in Philadelphia; A. Gordon Peterkin, superin...
Today, Morton is directed from a strikingly modern concrete office building on the Chicago River by Daniel Peterkin Jr., 59, whose father succeeded Joy Morton as the company's president in 1930. Peterkin joined Morton after getting a degree in geology from Princeton, took over as president after his father's death in 1941, when the company's sales were only $12.9 million. Under his aggressive direction, Morton passed its biggest competitor, International Salt, in the mid-'40s, began producing as well as marketing in every region of the country and overseas. In addition...
Died. Julia Mood Peterkin, 80, patrician South Carolina authoress ("I am not a literary person; my career is the plantation"), whose Scarlet Sister Mary, a folk tale of a Negro woman "in a patient struggle with fate," won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; of heart disease; in Orangeburg...
...plans. New York's freshman Senator Irving Ives, a longtime student of labor relations, proposed that House and Senate set up a joint committee to confer with management and union leaders and "work out a program helpful to everyone." The legislative hopper began to look like Mrs. Peterkin's cup of coffee, into which she accidentally put salt (in Lucretia P. Hale's Peter kin Papers'). Family and friends added one ingredient after another, hoping to make Mrs. Peterkin's coffee taste better. A lady of wisdom finally suggested that Mrs. Peterkin just pour...
Died. Marine Corps Captain Charles William ("Charlie") Paddock, 42, track star dubbed the onetime "world's fastest human" in the '20s, peacetime manager of California newspapers; in the crash of a Navy plane; near Sitka, Alaska. (Killed in the same crash: Marine Corps Major General William Peterkin Upshur, 61, commander of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific...