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...sparkplug of Louisville's Committee on Institutions is a small, bespectacled, 58-year-old businessman named George W. Stoll. One Sunday in 1940, Methodist Stoll left church after an especially inspiring sermon. He overheard someone say: "I've heard a lot of sermons like that. They inspire you to do something for your fellow men, but they never tell you what to do or how to do it." Then & there, Oilman Stoll decided that he would put Christian idealism to work in civic life...
...essence of the Stoll technique is cooperation rather than attack. The committee avoids public crusades or reform waves, concentrates on first getting all the facts, then making helpful suggestions. Says Chairman Stoll's brilliant right-hand man, Lawyer Charles E. Keller: "We avoid all politics. However, we will criticize conditions, or a bad system-or public apathy, if it is to blame. . . . But we never criticize a public official except to his face...
During the past five years George Stoll's Christian laymen have worked similarly with such institutions as the Central Kentucky State Hospital for the insane, the State Reformatory at La Grange, Louisville's Juvenile Court and detention center and the city's General Hospital. This week, a subdivision of the committee is tackling the problems of rehabilitating probationers. Says Chairman Stoll: "Sometimes I think there are only two things to do with a man when he commits a crime-either rehabilitate him or electrocute...
Fisher's throw beat out Cornell's Clark Sanford by a margin of one inch to capture the event while none of the other competitors went over the 50 foot mark. Third place went to Bill Stoll of N. Y. U., and Dick Wareham of M. I. T. took fourth...
Died. Sir Oswald Stoll, 75, British showman; in London. Producer, impresario, manager, he had owned or controlled some dozen British theaters and music halls, among them London's famed Covent Garden and Coliseum...