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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many observers hold two related theories about U.S. religion: it is 1) booming, and 2) growing progressively more secular. Sociologist Seymour M. Lipset of the University of California disagrees. While church membership has clearly risen in recent years, Lipset reports in the Columbia University quarterly Forum, there is "no basic trend" in churchgoing: it was 41% of the adult population in an average week of 1939, only 39% in 1950, and 47% in 1957. Other statistics...
...Armstrong, Hines and Henderson on his bedside radio. At Columbia University, Gleason was news editor for the Spectator, often nursed a beer all night long in the jazz joints on 52nd Street. With all that jazz, Gleason finally collapsed, quit college in his senior year. Cracks he: "I'm not copping a plea, but I did get a throat infection, and that cooled...
...planting 8,000,000 acres to hybrid sorghum for feed-half the entire sorghum crop-although the hybrid is only five years old. This started hybridizers hunting for other genetic freaks with hereditary male sterility. Researcher Frank Eaton of die U.S. Agriculture Department, working at Texas A. & M., found a chemical key that may unlock all the closed doors. Eaton noted that a weed killer, lightly applied, sterilized the male stamens of cotton, left the more protected female pistil apparently unhurt. If this means what hybridizers hope it means, it may be the key to hybridizing all crops-and vastly...
...board, succeeding Joseph A. Thomas, 52, who resigned. Widow of Financier-Diplomat Charles Ulrick Bay, Josephine Bay took over the business affairs of her husband after his death in 1955, became the first woman to reach a top Wall Street post when she became president and chairman of A. M. Kidder & Co., Inc. Now married to Oilman C. Michael Paul, who succeeds her as executive committee chief, she is the first woman to hold a major post in the shipping industry...
Other members include Roberta F. Colman '59, of Cambridge; Julie A. Decker '59, of Moors Hall and Brookline; Alison M. Keith '59, of Barnard Hall and Rochester, Minn.; Anne H. Layzer '59, of Cambridge and Chestnut Hill; Alice C. Pepper '59, of Moors Hall and New York City; Nancy L. Proger '59, of Comstock Hall and Brookline; and Nancy C. Stein '59, of Whitman Hall and Winnetka...