Word: greats
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...ecumenism, it seemed a most reasonable proposition: that the Methodist Church of Great Britain, which began life as an 18th century reform movement within Anglicanism, should reunite with the Church of Eng land, which had injudiciously let the reformers go in the first place. Last week the Methodist Conference in Birmingham and the Anglican Convocations of Canterbury and York, meeting in Lon don, voted on the first stage of a two-step plan for union that the two churches had been working on for 13 years...
Died. Robert ("Red") Rolfe, 60, baseball great, from 1934 to 1942 third baseman for the then peerless New York Yankees; of cancer; in Laconia, N.H. Though Rolfe was primarily a glove man, he was also a threat at bat (.289 lifetime average) and noted for his game-winning hits. He helped the Yanks to six pennants and five World Series titles, then as a manager in 1950 startled the baseball world by finishing second with a mediocre Detroit Tiger club that had finished fourth the year before. In 1954, he returned to his alma mater, Dartmouth College, where he served...
Died. Wilhelm Backhaus, 85, German patriarch of concert pianists and the century's foremost interpreter of Beethoven; of a heart attack; in Villach, Austria. When Backhaus was eight, the noted pianist-composer Arthur Nikisch wrote to him that "whoever plays the great Bach so well when so young will surely make his way later on." The assessment was overly modest. In a career spanning three generations, Backhaus won acclaim for his masterful interpretations of virtually all the great composers. But his deepest dedication was to Beethoven, whose sonatas he played with great clarity of style and breadth of emotion...
...foreign wages. In the U.S., wages and benefits for shoe workers average $2.75 an hour, compared with $1 in Italy, 560 in Spain, 580 in Japan and 480 in Taiwan. Labor is indeed a prime cost factor in an industry that has never been able to mechanize to any great extent. But price is not the only reason that the imports do so well. Craftsmanship and leadership in styling are equally valid explanations for the appeal of foreign shoes, particularly those from Italy, which account for 35% of the imports...
Even where major airline service is available, businessmen sometimes find the little lines more convenient. Chicago's Commuter Airlines offers 20 flights a day between lakefront Meigs Field and Detroit City Airport. The great jets fly between the cities much faster (in 40 min. or so, v. 1½ hrs. for Commuter), but Commuter customers avoid the long drive to outlying airports and get from downtown to downtown more quickly. Industry analysts expect that mergers will eventually whittle the present 240 scheduled operators down to a much smaller number of well-financed, more closely regulated carriers-and that only...