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...American Gomorrah, half-deserted by winter hedonists, was invaded last week by 8,000 teetotaling "messengers." Luxury hotels on the Miami bay-front were packed for the Southern Baptist Convention. They represented the second largest† U.S. Protestant group (5,668,000 members). Their 100th anniversary meeting, postponed by last year's transport crisis, commemorated the split in 1845 of Southern and Northern Baptists over slavery...
Winded. In Downing, Mo., John Barker celebrated his 100th birthday with a two-mile hike, did all right except once: the wind blew him down...
With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...
...dividends, most U.S. railroads, like geysers, give out sporadically. Only the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is an Old Faithful. Last week Pennsy performed on schedule; it declared its 99th consecutive common stock dividend. The $1 dividend will be made to Pennsy's 214,995 stockholders on April 13, the 100th birthday of the road...
Last week the old argument was up again. Denver was preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bill's birth with a parade of Indians and costumed plainsmen at the grave. Wyoming was also hustling to produce Buffalo Bill centennial celebrations-and still wanted Bill back. In Cody, Bill's grandson, William Garlow, cried: "If grandfather were alive he would say, 'Get my remains out from under this concrete even if you have to quarry...