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...Died. Willard Henry Dow, 52, president (since 1930) of gigantic Dow Chemical Co. (600 products); in a private airplane crash; near London, Ont. From a modest beginning by Dow's father in 1897, Dow Chemical became the largest producer of magnesium (mined from sea water) in World War II, did a $170 million business last year in industrial and agricultural chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals and magnesium...
...Willard C. Rappleye, dean of the faculty of medicine, able and genial boss of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons for the past 18 years, to become vice president in charge of medical affairs. ¶ Paul H. Davis, general secretary of Stanford University, until he took the same title at Columbia in 1946. As vice president in charge of development, he will be the university's top planner and coordinator of new educational projects...
Knock on Any Door (Santana; Columbia) carries an earnest but wobbly torch for a familiar social message. It also carries the imprint of a new independent called Santana Productions, partly owned by Humphrey Bogart. For his first effort as a producer, Bogart chose Willard Motley's bestselling novel, put Director Nicholas Ray to work behind the cameras, then walked around in front of the lens into the leading role...
...Lake Success one day last week, Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp* announced that, by official U.S. estimate, Russia keeps between eight and 14 million people in slave labor camps. Semen Tsarapkin, Russia's representative to ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council), coolly ignored the charge; no one else seemed to care either. The world had read too many statistics of death and misery...
Part of the answer lay with an eight-man committee coordinating the work of 25 different U.S. Government agencies. Headed by Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp,* the committee has been at work for the last three weeks fleshing out the plan's bare bones...