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Died. Julius T. Long, 86, elder brother of Louisiana's Huey and Earl Long, a onetime district attorney (for Winn Parish) who helped start Huey's political career, later broke with him and testified to his flagrant abuse of power in the 1933 U.S. Senate investigation of election fraud, dubbing his brother "the greatest political burglar of all times"; of complications following uremia; in Shreveport...
...weakening of the resolution on anti-semitism by the Ecumenical Council was a political move, there's no doubt about it," Heiko A. Oberman. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, declared yesterday after returning from the Council's recent session at the Vatican...
First for the ladies of the company, each one a pleasure to the eye and ear. As Polly, Catherine Winn makes her debut in Harvard drama, and she is a welcome addition. She possesses that rare combination of first-rate acting ability and a beautiful lyric soprano, and she knows how to balance the two. Her sweet, artless Polly could soften even the hardest highwayman's heart, and we easily understand Macheath's impetuous marriage vows...
Dividends Every Month. Though they are expansion-minded, the Davises have confined themselves to the South because they feel more comfortable in an area they know well. Racial strife lately has affected their sales, but not badly About 12% of Winn-Dixie's work force, including one manager, is Negro; a few stores have been picketed by Negroes who think that this is not enough, and other stores have been shunned by segregationists who feel that the chain is "knuckling under" to the Negroes. The Davises say that they will never agree to any hiring under pressure...
...company keeps 12,000 employees voting nonunion by means of lavish stock-purchase plans and bonuses for faster work. And it keeps stockholders satisfied with monthly dividend checks (minimum check: 9? on a single share). The unique monthly payment system adds $42,000 a year to costs, but Winn-Dixie believes that it helps sales and employee relations. Says J.E.: "Our customers quite often cash their checks in our stores, and when an employee gets a dividend check at the end of each month, man, he's happy." So are the Davises, who predict that sales in the coming...