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...police captain in South Africa. Son of a police major general, Stander had inexplicably taken to robbing banks. Found guilty of several heists in 1980, he and a fellow convict, Patrick McCall, 34, overpowered three prison guards last August, escaped, and later broke into another prison to free Allan Heyl, 31, a friend. The three quickly began knocking off banks, some 20 of them, as many as four in one day. As they hopped from bank to bank, they became known as "the Hopper Gang." Their net: an estimated...
...young men sport and struggle through their studies, only intermittently aware of the global conflict that rages outside their ivy cloister. The movie, an unreasonably faithful adaptation of John Knowles' novel, begins in the summer of 1942, currently a fashionable time for elegies to vanished youth. Finny (John Heyl) and Gene (Parker Stevenson) are roommates and best friends. Finny is forever the leader; Gene is more scholarly, more tentative. Together they form a club frivolously called the "Suicide Society." Initiation involves jumping off the limb of a tall tree into the river below...
Edward Hickling Bradford fellowship to Charles A. Janeway, New York City; John White Browne scholarship to Henry L. Heyl, New Canaan, Conn.; James Jackson Cabot fellowship to John H. Dingle 3M., Boston...
...gift-$158.000-surprised many people but pleased none more than it did a gentle, plump-faced old lady who helped in the campaign. Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison remembers the earliest days of the Institution. Her father. Lewis Miller, an Akron inventor, founded it with the help of Bishop John Heyl Vincent and there in 1885 Tom Edison paid court to Mina Miller. Later Inventor Edison be came honorary president of the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle which for years scattered books for home reading over the marble-topped parlor tables of the land...
Died. Hedwig Crusemann Heyl, 84, ''Hindenburg of the Kitchen," pioneer German feminist and kindergarten sponsor; in Berlin. When her husband died in 1889 she flabbergasted her friends by assuming the management of his Charlottenburg dye works, ran it efficiently until her sons came of age, wrote Germany's most popular cookbook, The ABC of the Kitchen...