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Signs of Spring. The U.S. capital of lacrosse is Baltimore, which has been in love with the sport since 1878, when a track-and-field team returned from Newport, R.I., with news of a "most activating and exciting new game." To a Baltimorean, the first signs of spring are the dents made in auto fenders by kids practicing passes. Lacrosse is a major sport at most of the city's public and private high schools; and one or another of three Maryland colleges (Johns Hopkins, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the University of Maryland) has won the national championship...
...Wouldn't you know-I just recently let my subscription to TIME expire and you publish this wonderful article on Hank Bauer. Being an avid Oriole fan, a native Baltimorean, and knowing that Mr. Marsh Clark is an alumnus of St. James School made this article even more interesting to me. You can be sure that I shall renew my subscription immediately...
Atheist Madalyn Murray boasts that "we do everything properly, through the courts." What she has already done through the courts, however, strikes millions of people as so improper that she has earned the epithet: "the most hated woman in America." Last year the belligerent Baltimorean won a Supreme Court ban on school prayer. Last month she started suit again to kill a new Maryland law permitting compulsory school "meditation." Next month she goes for the brass ring: a suit against the State of Maryland that is clearly aimed at destroying tax exemption for all U.S. church property. Churches are "leeches...
...striking case is that of Adele Roveda, whose heart defect was diagnosed in infancy before any corrective surgery had been devised. At 17, she had an early Blalock-Taussig operation, and another nine years later. Now 31, and married to Baltimorean Raymond W. Hepner Jr., she has a normal daughter almost three years old, and does her own housework...
...After serving a five-year term for "threatening the security" of Communist China, the Rev. Paul J. Mackensen Jr., last missionary of the United Lutheran Church in America to remain in China, was released from a Shanghai prison. Baltimorean Mackensen said he had decided to stay in Shanghai if he could find a job there. "I learned something of the program for social changes taking place in China," he said. "Now I'd like to study what is going...