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...editorial director of CR is Donal Dinwiddie, a former editor of Popular Mechanics. But its major influence has always been CU's first and only president, Colston Warne. Now 70, Warne also helped found the International Organization of Consumers Unions (47 affiliates in 30 countries), has served on the consumer advisory council to the President, and, until recently, was a professor of economics at Amherst. Virtually all of the annual budget of $10 million comes from sales of CR (60? on newsstands) and occasional books on consumer topics. Most of the revenue is turned back into more product testing...
...Kallet led his organization out of Manhattan into bright new offices and laboratories in suburban Mount Vernon, N.Y., there was trouble in the board room. President Colston Warne, an Amherst College economist, and other directors wanted Consumers Union to use its prestige with consumers to influence U.S. economic policy. Kallet wanted to continue to concentrate on the practical matters of analyzing new products...
...Viscount Trimingham?" asked little Leo Colston...
Chancellor Caldwell says that Colston's racial views had nothing to do with his resignation. According to Caldwell, Colston's administration had overspent its budget by $40,000 in 1947-43, and by substantially the same amount in 1948-49 after receiving a warning from the Board of Regents. There was no charge of misappropriation of funds...
...Colston, who at present is a lecturer in education at New York University, new claims he was not "aware" of the Associated Press interview. He has written the CRIMSON that "with regard to my leaving Georgia State College, I did not interpret it personally as a dismissal. As far as I know the matters that led up to my resigning were in essence the same as the statement made by Chancellor Caldwell...