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Died. Abraham Merritt, 59, editor Hearst's American Weekly; of a heart ailment ; in Indian Rock Beach, Fla. An associate editor of the Weekly since 1912, Scientifictioneer Merritt became editor in 1937; since then the Sunday supplement's circulation has grown from 6,000,000 to almost 8,000,000. On the side he was a cold-sweat novelist (Seven Footprints to Satan) and a garden cultivator of mandrake, monkshood and other varieties of backyard deliriants...
...flush toilet or have any idea of a sanitary latrine? Did Charles Dickens ever hear a radio? Did Goethe ever handle a camera? . . . Did Charles Lamb ever see Ginger Rogers or use a plastic toothbrush? Did Wordsworth ever cross in the Hudson Tunnel or drive on the Merritt Parkway? . . . Why must we be the mirror to the universe? Where are the standards? The invalid assumptions must fall away, and some common standard for all humanity must be rediscovered...
...ponderous, delicate job of righting the U.S.S. Lafayette began cautiously last week. In his operations office aboard the wreck, Merritt-Chapman & Scott's tough, salvage-wise John I. Tooker signaled his pump men. Too slowly for a waiting eye to see, the big dead ship moved in her muddy grave. Only the high-water mark etched on her nearly vertical deck revealed the inching gain...
...comparably steamed up about a c.o. teacher. The blast came from Florida's R. P. Terry, member of Dade County's School Board. Last week he got the Board to order the trial of a c.o. for incompetence. The accused: Edward O. Schweitzer, science teacher at Ada Merritt Junior High, 35-year-old Scoutmaster and Y.M.C.A. club leader of Coral Gables. Heavyset, aggressive Terry, a veteran of World War I, American Legionnaire, Mason, Elk and lawyer, argued that Schweitzer, who has been teaching for more than a decade, has "unfitted himself as a teacher by his beliefs" about...
After the first inning, no Crimson runner saw third base as Merritt mowed them down. He issued only three passes, and the game was marked by only two errors, one by each team. Berg walked four men, and the contest was over in less than two hours...