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Died. Donald Culross Peattie, 66, poet, author and naturalist, who in more than 25 lyrical books (An Almanac for Moderns, A Cup of Sky) gave new voice to Thoreau's idea that man reaches spiritual fulfillment only through contact with nature, saying that "it touches a man that his blood is sea water and his tears are salt, and he who goes in no consciousness of these facts is without a home or any contact with reality"; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Paul has always been thought to be one man who did not put off writing letters; 14 of the New Testament's 21 Epistles are attributed to him. Now a canny Scots minister from the town of Culross claims to have scientific evidence that Paul wrote only four of the letters that bear his name-Romans, I and II Corinthians, and Galatians...
...hours before leaving Tucson for a visit to Tombstone, Arizona's hell-roaring town of the early 1880s ... I read in TIME of April 3 that I was dead. ("Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon.") It was an interesting discovery, but one to which I am not unaccustomed...
...Weyer Jr., 45, Eskimo expert, Arctic explorer and onetime professional acrobat, who persuades scientists and amateurs to write at his low (now 3? a word) rates instead of sending articles to the wealthier National Geographic (TIME, May 23). Among the bylines Weyer has snared: Lowell Thomas, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald Culross Peattie, Oliver La Farge, the late Roy Chapman Andrews and Hendrik Willem van Loon...
...price for contributors, and the magazine looked it. Ted Resting raised the rates to as much as $500 for stories and $400 for illustrations. He replaced the shopworn "Me and Joe went fishing" type of story with pieces by such writers as Louis Bromfield, George Sessions Perry and Donald Culross Peattie. He also took off on crusades (a current anti-pollution series is called Running Sores On Our Land), and hired a Washington correspondent to keep up with conservation news and legislation. As circulation rose, so did Ted Resting's salary; at 32, he gets $25,000 a year...