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Over the off-season, partisans of other A.L. hopefuls like Al Lopez and Bob Scheffing pointed, to the loss of shortstop Tony Kubek and the impossibility of repeat performances by Roger Maris and Luis Arroyo ("Relievers Don't Repeatl" an article in Baseball Digest maintained) as reasons for a Yankee collapse...
Paul Kidd, 29, feature writer, Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator, will be the second holder of the Canadian Fellowship, sponsored by the Reader's Digest Association of Canada. A native of England, where he started newspaper work on the Evening Chronicle of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Kidd has been six years on the Hamilton paper. He plans to study Latin America...
...There are 72 Braille magazines (total circulation: 95,045), including a special edition of the Reader's Digest sent free to 3,800 people...
...editor, then, as for the writer, the problem of eliminating imitation doesn't exist. The real problem, which carries a living interest, is to find the good imitator, and to watch him digest the old influences and assume the new, always growing and changing, sometimes slightly, some-comes enormously. Three or four have one so in my time, and it is to them that one points as the real life, the creative thinking," at Harvard. They have sacked my old grad's vault with an altogether enviable lack of decorism...
Unforgettable Character. All this is due to the beneficence of Macalester's Most Unforgettable Character, Reader's Digest Founder-Editor DeWitt Wallace. Wallace, 72, was born at tiny Macalester four years after it opened in 1885. His father, Dr. James Wallace, a Presbyterian preacher and a Greek scholar, was president for a dozen years, and saved the place from bankruptcy. Wallace graduated from neither Macalester nor the University of California, where he later put in a couple of years. But he has poured money into Macalester ever since he got rich selling homily grits...