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Died. The Rev. George Bolton, 59, British-born pastor (1942-59) of the Christian Herald's Bowery Mission, a onetime gambler who wandered aimlessly from city to city, was picked up by a pastor in a Bowery basement where he had gone to sleep; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Restored and reunited with the wife he deserted in England 14 years before, Bolton turned to helping others, called his congregation of penniless wanderers the "most desperate, most defeated, most faithful in the world," established a "halfway" center to prepare them for a return to normal society...
...briskest reforms to date: appointment of Dean Simpson and complete re-establishment of major studies within the college. The full-size curriculum is likely to command respect at last for the sagging college of the wealthy (endowment: $186 million) university; the new dean already has it. Trim, clip-toned, British-born Alan Simpson went to Chicago in 1946 as a newly demobbed Royal Artillery major. He is now a U.S. citizen, married to an associate editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists...
...temporary and involuntary inmate of the Imam's palace, British-born Rita Nasir, last week described how the Imam punishes a recalcitrant wife or concubine caught in such offenses as smoking. She must kneel in front of the throne while the Imam's dentist yanks out several of her teeth for each offense...
...Executive Vice President Harry Winston Bradbury, 62, a British-born career coalman, was elected president of Pennsylvania's money-losing Glen Alden Corp., biggest U.S. producer of anthracite (1957 sales of $62 million brought a net loss of $3,494,000). He replaces Francis O Case, 63, inactive since April, when Bradbury moved in from the presidency of Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Case had approved of the plan to merge Glen Alden with List Industries, successor to RKO Theaters Corp. and owner of 38½% of Glen Alden stock. But last week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court enjoined the plan...
...most prolific composers in the recent history of opera was British-born (of French descent) Piano Virtuoso Eugène d'Albert. In a career otherwise occupied with six marriages, teaching and lucrative concert tours, he managed to compose 20 musical melodramas, ending with a preposterous oriental olio called Mr. Wu that he left unfinished when he died in 1932. Most of his concoctions were unqualified flops, partly because Composer d'Albert had difficulty deciding whose horn he was tooting-Puccini's or Richard Strauss's. The only currently heard remnant of his life...