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Four-time Pulitzer Prizewinning Poet Robert Frost, to his surprise, turned 80. Explained he: "I got my sister's birthday mixed up with my own and just recently discovered through old letters that I was born in 1874, not 1875." A reporter asked him how it felt to learn that he was a year older than he had long believed. Said Frost: "I'd begun to suspect it for some time...
...been prepared. Instead of sightseeing or sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber of Commerce, they flew directly to Parana's coffee-raising center, 200 miles inland from Sao Paulo. Full of questions about fertilizers, wages, harvesting methods and crop yields, they covered 150 miles of frost-burned coffee-land by motorcade and afoot. Trudging down rows of tree skeletons, Mrs. Chapman said: "This is very distressing-worse than we had imagined...
...Chapman promised the coffeemen: "Our first duty will be to tell American housewives that the [frost blight] reports are true." Mrs. Swanbeck summed up: "The hearts of women beat the same all over the world. We are going to keep our friendship, and it is not going to dissolve in a cup of coffee...
COFFEE prices may soar to $1.50 a Ib. within the next year. Brazilian coffeemen say that with inventories exhausted the losses from last June's frost are just beginning to be felt. They expect high prices for at least three years. Meanwhile, consumption keeps climbing; a supermarket survey shows coffee sales up 15% in the New York area, mostly because of scare-buying...
...medical frost that had long lain upon New Haven, Conn, was thawed out last week. The Yale School of Medicine, opened in 1813, and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, dating from 1826, decided to get together in a formal medical center. Also joining the combine will be Yale's School of Nursing, its Psychiatric Institute, Department of Public Health and its famed Child Study Center (TIME...