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...Gutenberg Bible to stick in it." But the spacious new library will be more than a shrine for ancient bits of paper and vellum. Thus far, Indiana's rare books have been useless to all but the few high-ranking scholars who could be allowed access to them. Best feature of the new library: professors, graduate students and undergraduates will be able to use everything in Randall's collection, including the Gutenberg Bible. Says Randall's coworker, Associate Director of Libraries Cecil Byrd: "These rare books are as much a part of academic equipment as test tubes...
Beat of the Year. Then came Expressen. Nycop hired Sweden's best young newsmen (one impoverished reporter got a set of false teeth as an inducement), gave them lessons in writing simple Swedish (which is not at all simple). He kept his sharp eye out for the big news beat, and on May 7, 1945 he found the biggest of the year-the surrender of Germany, broadcast by Grand Admiral Doenitz and picked up by Expressen's radio monitors. Nycop had been hopefully holding his presses for the news, now says that his Expressen became the world...
...average (2.88), managed a 14-13 record for a St. Louis team that scored fewest runs in the league. With Lefthanders Johnny Antonelli (16-13 last year) and Mike McCormick (11-8), and slow-balling Righthander Stu Miller (whose 2.47 earned-run average was the league's best last year), the Giants have the best group of pitchers in years...
...field," he says, "but you forget bad field when I hit"). Catcher Bob Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop, Andre Rodgers, 24, a onetime Bahamas cricket player, seems finally to have solved big-league pitching, was leading the team in batting average (.414), as the Giants broke camp at week...
Sacred to Three. What the scholars found almost passed belief. There were 3,000 manuscripts, many illuminated. In the apse of the basilica there was a 6th century Transfiguration of Christ, 20 feet across, one of the earliest, most splendid, and best preserved of all Byzantine mosaics. There were more than 2,000 ancient icons, by far the world's largest and also greatest collection...