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Frost has had a long-standing association with Harvard. He was an undergraduate here for two years before the turn of the century. He was a Ralph Waldo Emerson fellow during the 1930's. He is also an associate of Adams House...
...used to sell undecided customers with the assurance that "my own family uses it" is steadily giving way to the self-service shopping cart. Today, advertising is the magnet that draws customers into the nation's supermarkets and department stores, and the prime mover of human inventiveness. Emerson notwithstanding, a man has small inspiration to build a better mousetrap unless he can mass-produce it and shout to the world about...
...Somewhere in every man there is the capacity for worship and prayer, for the apprehension of God and the love of him," wrote Manhattan's famed Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick. "Praying is a practice like breathing or eating." From Pentecostal ministers roaring hallelujahs to Greek Orthodox choirs chanting the Divine Liturgy in four-part harmony, from a widow silently mourning her dead husband to a child asking for a wanted toy, the nation last week was praying...
...Forest Hills, N.Y., Rod ("Rocket") Laver, a deceptively small (5 ft. 9 in.), bowlegged Australian, scored a smashing victory in the U.S. championships to complete his own remarkable sweep and match Budge's 24-year-old record. Laver did it by defeating Fellow Aussie Roy Emerson, the player who had beat him for the U.S. title last year...
...Davis Cup team for two years, Laver had never before managed to put two of the four top titles together. But this season he has been all but unbeatable. He won the Italian, Netherlands, Norwegian and Swiss championships, commenced his pursuit of the slam with victories over Emerson in Australia and France. In July he won at Wimbledon with such astonishing ferocity that Martin Mulligan, another countryman whom he dispatched in barely 53 minutes, gasped: "I must have offended him." By the time he got to Forest Hills, says Laver, "I was so nervous I could hear my knees knocking...