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Died. Sam Higginbottom, 83, onetime (1939-40) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., longtime missionary to India, former president of Allahabad Christian College; after a heart attack; in Port Washington, N.Y. British-born, U.S.-educated Sam Higginbottom, distressed by man's fate in the India he first visited in 1903 ("In those villages it took no effort to die"), studied agriculture at Ohio State University, returned to introduce crop rotation, irrigation and contour farming...
With its irresistible combination of spur and promise, the U.S. beauty industry has made U.S. women the world's best groomed. "It is well known around the world," says British-born Anthropologist Ashley Montagu, "that American women are the most beautiful-and that they can make themselves even better than they are. The beauty industry is, socially, highly important and desirable. There is certainly a magic transformation performed on women who enter appearing like Mrs. Malaprop and leave as beautifully embellished as Madame Recamier reclining on her chaise longue...
...Monuments. The company is run by the three Mackle brothers-Elliott, 49, Robert, 46, and Frank, 42-who now rank as the South's biggest residential builders. The brothers, who share one office and secretary, started in the business while still schoolboys. Their father, a British-born Florida builder, insisted that they spend their summers mixing concrete and hammering nails, left them with a stern legacy: "Be the first man on the job and the last to leave. Build good houses. Don't build monuments to yourself...
...admission fee was 5 shillings (70?), but a sign over the entrance said: "Half price after 5 p.m." It was then twelve minutes to 5. Said Billionaire Getty: "Let's take a walk around the block for a few minutes." On another occasion he was persuaded by British-born Author and Actress Ethel Le Vane to send some silk ties to famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson, whom she and Getty had just visited while preparing their book, Collector's Choice, a well-reviewed narrative of their hunt for art treasures. Getty caught Collaborator Le Vane writing "From Paul...
...journalistic awards-most of them, including a 1950 Pulitzer for Edmund Stevens' reporting on Russia, for its international coverage. With seven "overseas" bureaus -the Monitor considers "foreign" a derogatory word-it has one of the best-seasoned corps of foreign correspondents in the business. Explains British-born, 25-year London Staffer John May: "What I write, they print-and for almost any newspaperman, this is a consummation devoutly to be wished for and less and less likely to be consummated...