Word: rotarianism
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...folk songs. Jewish businessmen, leaving Rotarian lunches with their gentile colleagues, are offended by the sight of a shambling, stoop-shouldered old man with a Judaic beard and earlocks...
What emerged from the pages of U.S. newspapers was the figure of a craftily intelligent, ingenuously friendly. Soviet-type Rotarian, a capitalist at heart, who appealed to American vanity by praising American ways and American machinery. The Soviet press took careful and exultant note of the picture the U.S. press presented. "A Warm Wind from Moscow," paeaned the Moscow Literary Gazette,*quoting Mikoyan's "peace-loving utterances" and noting "the passionate desire of the Americans to be rid of the exasperating cold war." The U.S. press did not buy Salesman Mikoyan's wares, but in the name...
...voted to invite, made community service rather than business the organization's avowed goal. Taking the noble lion as his symbol, Jones injected a cubbish mood by teaching the boys to sing such rousing tunes as the official Roar, Lion, Roar at almost any meal. Though many a Rotarian and no few Kiwanians would continue to frown down upon lively Lions, the Jones ideas infected the older clubs (the Kiwanis motto has been changed from "We Trade" to "We Build"), and the Lions thrived first in the U.S., then in Canada, Latin America and Europe...
...families the Methodist Publishing House has launched a spanking new slick-paper magazine called Together. Edited by Leland D. Case, onetime editor of The Rotarian (circ. 302,202), this 88-page "Midmonth Magazine for Methodist Families" aims to have something for everybody. Manhattan's crowd-pulling Preacher Ralph W. Sockman contributes the lead article on "What My Religion Means to Me," but religion as such is subordinated to fiction and features; e.g., a movie guide with plus or minus recommendations broken down for adults, youth, children and family, a picture essay on a child with a cleft palate...
Hunt is a man of many oddly assorted parts. He is an academic in good standing, and he is also a Republican, an enthusiastic Rotarian, a shrewd organizer and a fluent speaker. He hit his professional stride as a high-school principal in St. Johns, Mich. (pop. 5,000) and, as a sideline, became a successful speaker at Rotary Club luncheons. While on Rotary's wheel, Herold Christian Hunt swung over to a better job as superintendent of the rundown schools of Kalamazoo. After three years of cleaning up Kalamazoo, he was well established as an able mender...