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...basketball team never trailed the Fort Devens quintet in winning its seventh game, 90 to 81. Monday night at Ayer, Mass...
Winning three events, the Wigglesworth swimming team nosed out Matthews North for first place by three points. The winners amassed a total of 40 points, with Bill Ayer and Dick Sayre taking individual championships. Other swimming meet victors were Steve Wald of Lionel, Brian Wilhelm of Matthews North, and Mike Berger of Matthews North, Wilhelm won both the 100 yard and the 200-yard freestyle...
...gave up and moved to a cheap room in Hoboken, having lost his "illusions about what an education could do for me." By limiting himself to 11? a day for lunch and not much else, he held out until he found a job he liked, working for N. W. Ayer advertising agency in Manhattan. Grant moved through every department, was so able at whatever he turned his hand to that in three years he was sent to London to represent the agency...
Died. Beatrice Ayer Patton, 67, widow of the U.S. Army's late great armor tactician, General George S. Patton Jr.; of injuries suffered in a fall from her horse; in South Hamilton. Mass. Like her husband, Beatrice Patton was an outspoken believer in the strenuous life. She wrote a historical novel (Blood of the Shark), composed band music for her husband's tank units, helped prepare his pep talks to his troops. After Patton's death in 1945, she campaigned for universal military training ("It makes Americans out of all sorts of odds and ends...
...William Ward Ayer, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, warned Protestants against the spell of "individualistic" evangelists. "Biblically orthodox leaders have espoused a loose individualism in which order and decorum in church life have been forsaken, and have allowed appeals by religious 'glamour boys' to capture the imagination of the religious multitude, and millions of dollars have been poured into causes that have little effect upon the advancement of organized Christianity. These . . . unanchored movements, while undoubtedly helpful at times, may easily become the instrument that will disintegrate our organized Protestant church life...