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...political vineyards and it said that he should run for the U.S. Senate, opposing Oklahoma's bumbling old Elmer Thomas in the Democratic primaries (also likely to seek the seat: able Democratic Congressman Mike Monroney). Bill Alexander considered his position. As pastor of one of the wealthiest congregations in the state and as one of the most popular lecturers in the Southwest (he owns his own plane to keep five to eight lecture dates a week), he earns about $40,000 a year. His deacons thought running for the Senate was a fine idea, promised that he could keep...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's wealthiest corporation ($10 billion in assets) wants to make all of its 600,000 workers stockholders. Last week, as A.T.& T. authorized a $200 million bond issue for sale to the public, it also offered 600,000 shares of common stock for sale only to employees, at $20 below the market price (145½ last week). A.T.& T. hopes to raise more than $60 million, plans to spend the money on new telephone installations. This is the third postwar stock offering to A.T.& T. employees ; there are already...
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower last week was in Texas for a "social" visit. Before it was over, he had dined in high privacy with San Antonio's wealthiest, had taken to the microphone before some 17,000 Texans in Houston and Galveston, had blasted again & again at the philosophy and practice of the welfare state. To reporters he unblinkingly declaimed: "I don't want a thing to do with politics-but that does not mean that I won't comment on political issues...
Rows of seats are preferred over a conference table becauses they accommodate large classes. But the practice of moulding educational techniques to the capacity of available class rooms is hardly worthy of America's wealthiest University. Professors who find undergraduates incapable of benefitting from the conference method fail to understand that discussion cannot begin spontaneously after 45 minutes of one-way communication. Participation must be fostered, and it needs mechanical encouragement in room design...
...forceful preacher, an energetic administrator and a precise theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish in the U.S. At his desk and in the pulpit, he proved to be a good choice for the job: during his 13-year tenure the Trinity Corp. reduced its debt substantially...