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Madeleine Carroll, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (for Red Crossing), was sued for divorce after four years by Stirling Hayden, holder of Yugoslavia's "Order of Merit to the People" (for running arms to the Partisans through the Adriatic blockade). Wartime duties had kept them apart...
...While the theorists spun their theories, two extra-large sunspots crept across the sun. The spots were many times bigger than the earth, big enough to be seen through plain smoked glass. Asked if they would tangle up earth's radios, Astronomer Robert Coles of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium said, with a gleam in his eye, that "he would not be surprised...
...Manhattan, weeping housewives called the Hayden Planetarium to ask if two planets were about to collide. Flib-bertygibbets in other U.S. cities got ready for the final bang...
This ancient text on tithing still looks sensible to Quaker Perry Hayden, an energetic mill executive of Tecumseh, Mich. Five years ago Hayden launched a dramatic experiment to prove that tithing works. He planted 360 kernels of wheat in i a plot 4 by 8 ft. Each year he has given a tithe (one-tenth) of the crop to the church, resown the rest. This week he and several hundred fellow tithers will go into a 230-acre field to harvest approximately 5,060 bushels...
This year, Hayden will divide the 4,500 bushels of wheat which are to be replanted between 4-H groups and farmers who have pledged themselves to sow it. They will give 10% of next year's harvest to the church of their choice and 5% to the ''Dynamic Kernels Foundation" (incorporated to make charitable gifts, distribute literature "bearing especially upon Christian Stewardship and the blessings coming to those who tithe"). This year's tithe will go to local hospitals...