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...Tyrone Guthrie, were drawn to Minneapolis as a city immune to Broadway's manic-depressive boom-or-bust psychology. Guthrie, a restlessly inventive director, had already been the chief architect of Stratford, Ontario's successful festival. The trio found a fervent ally and a doggedly gifted fund raiser in Minneapolis Editor John Cowles Jr. Prophesied Guthrie, who carries his 6-ft. 5-in. frame like a queen's grenadier guard in mufti: "Minn will come through." Minn did. The T. B. Walker Foundation donated the land and a grant of $400,000. The Ford Foundation added...
...Postmaster is a curtain-raiser. It tells about a young civil servant who comes to an isolated village to run the post office and finds, as a legacy from lis predecessor, a wistful ten-year-old girl who is to be his servant. He teaches her to read and write; when he falls ill with malaria, she nurses him through his fever. He asks for a transfer back to the city and she hides, sobbing, when his replacement arrives. The departing postmaster walks slowly away from the village, calling to the girl to say goodbye. She appears, carrying a heavy...
...school was deep in the red, and Griswold smoothly made himself a crack fund raiser. He more than tripled endowment to $375 million, launched a $69.5 million capital-funds campaign, put $75 million into 26 new buildings, gave Gothic Yale a bold new look with daring designs by Eero Saarinen and other top modern architects. To emphasize liberal education, Griswold gave Yale College control of all 4,000-odd undergraduates, including the once separatist engineering students. To spur Yale scholars, he set up research fellowships for young teachers, more than doubled faculty salaries; top professors...
...Indian territory, worked as a salesman and schoolteacher, passed the bar after clerking in an Ada law office. In 1929, he joined with his brother-in-law to start a shaky drilling company that eventually became the $200 million Kerr-McGee corporation. Kerr entered Democratic politics as a fund raiser and spokesman for the oil and gas industries, was elected Governor in 1942, and went to the Senate in 1948. He became the second-ranking Democrat, behind Virginia's Byrd, on the Senate Finance Committee. As such, he last year helped push through much of President Kennedy...
...Prime Minister, Sato will not lack political skill. In 1954, when he was his party's chief fund raiser, he was accused of taking $150,000 in bribes from industrialists to ease antitrust laws. Replied Sato with icy aplomb: "My job was to raise party funds; I did nothing that any politician who knew his job would not have done." Like his brother, Politician Sato counts himself a firm friend of the West. Though trade-hungry Japan hopes ultimately to do some business with Red China, for the time being it has "no intention of going against free world...