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...TIME to get rid of Columbus Day. Celebrating this holiday is like rooting for the cowboys in those old John Ford Westerns--something we all used to do but ought to be ashamed of now that we know some of the real history of the period...
DIED. Lucas Tupper, 45, Franciscan missionary doctor whose practice embraced 200,000 Brazilian villagers along the Amazon River; of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope...
...Tuesday the women harriers will host Rhode Island at 3:30 p.m. at Franklin Park. To see this and all cross-country meets in person, take Massachusetts Avenue all the way into Boston, where you turn left on Columbus Avenue, which runs into Franklin Park...
...Haley offers plenty of tips on how to be successful at contesting. She follows the rules strictly, making sure that the cards, paper and envelopes are the proper size. Mrs. Haley went to East High School in Columbus and was good at spelling and penmanship. She tries to tailor her entries to the known preferences of the judges. Over the years she has become familiar with their likes and dislikes by reading the winning entries and studying the advice in the contest newsletters. Says she: "Some want cleverness, others want simple, homespun ideas...
...fame at Harvard, but only rarely is it achieved. Dedicated athletes tend to get sidetracked once they learn that there's more to life than batting practice or crack-back blocks. They lose their interest, they lose their edge. They're no longer jocks out of the Ron "Goodbye Columbus" Patimkin mold...