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Died. Edwin C. (for Conger) Hill, 72, longtime (1932-56) radio commentator [The Human Side of the News), onetime topflight reporter (1904-23) and feature writer (1927-32) for the old New York Sun, whose sonorous tones and rich sealed-in sen'timentalism brought him millions of listeners at his peak; of lung cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Hill at his chestnut-stuffed best: "Indiana! How often in this holiday season the thoughts of an exiled son have turned back affectionately to the old state! Aromas more wonderful than the perfumes of Araby. Thrilling hints of the feast...
...through the thin soil. ("I wish you a happy death," cries one after another of his characters, as if the wish were the greatest thing life had to offer.) To underline his point that man's nature is animal, O'Flaherty has written of hawks, cows, rockfish, conger eels and water hens; their biological tragedies are as bitter as the things that go on inside the heart of men who cry "bloody woe!" He is less successful with his beasts (as was D. H. Lawrence, another important modern writer to try to attempt the same thing) than with...
...religious outlook is good protection against sudden death on the highways, according to a University of Colorado team headed by Psychologist John J. Conger. The team studied 264 men at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, found that psychologists' scales of values were the best clue to accident proneness. Especially important: values in the religious, theoretical and esthetic fields. Subjects who seldom or never had driving accidents were those who attached more importance to religious values than to the theoretical or esthetic. The high-accident group tended to be less conventional, more complex and conflicted, less in harmony...
Last week Federal Judge Edward A. Conger, who had heard the case, decided that the jury had been too generous. He set aside the verdict, held that Jimmy Moffett had not proved that it was his words that had saved Aramco. Besides, he said, such services were "the kind that the law says may not be compensated for because they are against 'public policy...
Author John Steinbeck's estranged wife, Gwyn Conger Steinbeck, temporarily settled in Reno for a routine divorce, got mixed up in ugly complications. Her occasional dinner partner, Denverite Leonard J. Wolff, morose over his own divorce and out $86,000 on the night's gambling, brought her home one morning, 45 minutes later blew his brains out. Authorities cleared Gwyn of any connection with the suicide, declared that she was a victim of circumstances ("it could have happened to any girl...