— A FOUR-YEAR CAMPAIGN IS SUCCESSFUL Tribute to the Industry For Cancer Hospital BOSTON—Industry leaders, doctors and scientists and men prominent in public life came here Monday (7i for the dedication of the Jimmy Fund building. They knew in a general way that it was the culmination of a four-year campaign of Variety Club of New England and the Boston Braves of the National league. What they didn't know until they heard it from the lips of various speakers was that it is the first institution of the kind in the world and is regarded by doctors and researchers as one of the outstanding moves of the generation to find the cause of cancer in children and to eradicate it if possible. Cancer is common in children and works much more rapidly than in adults. That is why scientists consider this new step important, because whatever is learned among children will be applicable to adults. OUTSTANDING P. R. PROJECT Outside of the purely scientific aspects of the projects it has proved to be an extraordinary public relations undertaking that has captured the imaginations of boys and girls and men and women. More than $1,500,000 has been collected in nickels and dimes and quarters, with some larger contributions from New England industries. Radio networks, the Boston Braves, all the Variety Club members, governors of six states, and church leaders of all faiths, have joined in the effort. A bank advanced money on loan to hurry the completion of the building. Another $1,000,000 is needed, and an annual maintenance fund will be required. Everybody is confident this will be secured. Tlie building is a four-story structure with Walt Disney characters painted on the walls of the lower floor, with a merry-go-round in the waiting room. It also has a miniature railroad that goes through tunnels and has stations and crossings and a television set all designed to relieve the nervous strain of the young patients. MANY RESEARCH LABORATORIES On every floor are research laboratories. The institution is a part of the Children's hospital and the researchers will have the cooperation of the Harvard Medical school. It has been given $100,000 worth of apparatus through Dr. Shields Warren, director of the Division of Medicine and Biology of the Atomic Energy Commission. That's how modern it is. Samuel Pinanski, chief barker (^ Variety Club of New England, outlined the history of the campaign—a remarkable story. The day after Jimmy was taken to a ball game by Jim Britt, baseball announcer, and a combined radio broadcast and television program was put on, automobiles began stopping at the Children's hospital to leave donations. Boys and gii-ls sold lemonade along the highways of New England and sent in the profits. Arthur Lockwood, exhibitor, was the master of ceremonies at the dedication. Others who spoke were: Britt; J. Wells Farley, president of the Children's medical center: George Packer Berry, M.D., dean of Harvard medical school; J. R. Heller, M.D., director of the National Cancer Institute and representative of the United States Public Health Service: Louis R. Perini, chairman of the building committee, and also part owner of the Boston Braves: Martin J. MuUin, president of the Children's Cancer Research Foundation and also a leading New England exhibitor; Archbishop Cushing; Shields Warren, M.D., director of the division of medicine and biology. Atomic Energy Commission, and Sidney Farber, M.D., scientific director. Dr. Farber, who is nationally known, introduced his staff of researchers, both men and women. At a banquet which followed at the Statler hotel in the evening the motion picture industry received a memorable public tribute. Marc Wolf, international chief barker of Variety Clubs International, received an almost continuous round of applause as he enumerated the children's projects carried on by tents throughout the country. Gael Sullivan, executive director of Theatre Owners of America, was toastmaster. Presentations of awards of merit were made as follows: By Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin to Martin J. Mullin; by Ned E. Depinet, president of RKO and of COMPO, to Carl Haffenreffer, well-known brewer, who was a pioneer in the Jimmy fund movement; by Thomas Holmes to Hector Pelletier; by Warren Giles to Jimmy Britt; by Walter Brown to Calvin Favorite; by Earl Torgeson to A. Edward Lalli; by Ford Frick, baseball commissioner, to Louis R. Perini, part owner and manager of the Boston Braves. Towne Appeals Denied; Huge Verdict Stands WASHINGTON — Both the Milwaukee Towne Theatre and the six major distributors were turned down by the Supreme Court this week (7) in their appeals from an original $1,295,878 antitrust damage verdict. The theatre appealed from a circuit court decision which sliced the damages to $941,574 and the attorney's fees from $225,000 to $75,- 000 while the majors wanted a rehearing on the grounds that the award was excessive and unrealistic. Unless the high court reverses itself and agrees to hear the appeals—a rarity—the verdict of $941,574 will stand. Despite the slicing by the court, it remains one of the highest damage claims ordered paid by the courts in the many antitrust suits brought against the producer-distributor companies. The $1,125,000 damage award in the suit of the Brookside Theatre Co. in Kansas City against Fox Midwest and the distributors is now the top verdict. This award, however, has been appealed and if the circuit court reasons along the same lines as it did in the Towne case, this large verdict likewise may be decreased. Hughes Stock Rights Argued Before Court WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court wa« told Monday (7) that the Justice department "went beyond" the provisions of the RKO consent decree virtually to the point of "confiscation" when it asked the New York statutory court to direct the sale of Howard Hughes' stock holdings in the new RKO theatre company. The lower court ordered the Irving Trust Co.. trustee of the 929,000 shares, to sell the stock within two years if Hughes had not disposed of it by Feb. 20, 1953. T. A. Slack, attorney for Hughes, declared that the court "improperly and without legal foundation modified the terms of the consent decree." There was no agreement by Hughes and no evidence presented to the court in support of the D of J position, he added. NEED DECREE CLARIFICATION There was only one question to be settled by the high court, Slack stated, and that was the proper interpretation of the consent decree's provision regarding the Hughes stock. This section, which Hughes agreed to "voluntarily" although not a defendant, expressly stated that Hughes was to sell his stock in one of the two new companies or put it into a voting trust with a court-appointed trustee which was to "remain in force" until he disposed of them. Slack argued. There was no agreement of any sort regarding a forced sale, he added. The government, represented by Justice department attorney Philip Marcus, contended that the fundamental premise on which the entire Paramount case was based was the prime necessity of complete divorcement of exhibition from production-distribution, and that one of the means of achieving this was to see that large stockholders did not retain holdings in both new companies. He pointed to the later Warner, Paramount and Fox consent decree as examples. The government never contemplated that Hughes would be able to draw profits from both companies—hold control of the picture company and receive dividends from the theatre company—Marcus contended. This situation, he said, would be an "incentive" for the picture company to favor the theatre company in the licensing of its films. Objective, he said, was to get Hughes "out of the picture" of one or the other of the companies. •NO DOUBT AS TO INTENT' There was no doubt at any time, Marcus stated, that it was the Government's intention that Hughes was to sell his stock. He admitted there was a "gap" in the decree provision, but said this was left to be filled in by the District Court under the "express provision" of the section that the court was to establish reasonable terms and conditions. The disputed order accomplished this, he said, and added that he considered the disposal period permitted "very reasonable." (Irving Trust is to get rid of the stock within two years after next February's deadline). The order did not amend the decree as claimed by Slack, he said, but was issued pursuant to the section of the decree containing the provision for the stock disposition. He maintained his position despite a severe hammering from the court, with many of the justices intimating doubt that requirement for sale was spelled out in the terms of the decree. 16 BOXOFnCE January 12. 1952 !
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