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Defending champion San Francisco, Iowa, Southern Methodist, and Temple moved into the semi-final round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The Dons defeated a tough Utah team 92-77 for its 53rd straight victory. SMU eliminated Oklahoma City, 84-63, while Iowa jolted Kentucky 89-77. In the other quarter-final game, Temple edged Canisius...
David Crane's creator is Canadian-born Artist Winslow Mortimer, 36, who lives in Carmel, N.Y., collects guns, goes to Drew Methodist Church. He is aided by Hartzell Spence, son of a Methodist minister, who wrote One Foot in Heaven, and who serves as idea man and general consultant for the strip. Between them the two have a problem as old as literature -how to make the good as interesting...
...Marshall S. Lachner. 41, was named president of the Pabst Brewing Co. to replace Harris Perlstein, who will continue as chairman. Born in Illinois and educated at Northwestern and Wharton School of Finance, Methodist Elder Lachner knows little about beer. But he is an old hand at selling, was with Colgate-Palmolive for 16 years, where he ended up as vice president of the keenly competitive soap division. Chief reason for the change at Pabst: it slipped from third to fourth place, behind Schlitz, Anheuser-Busch, Ballantine...
...student, he went on a double date with a lawyer friend, spent the evening making calf's eyes at his friend's date, pretty Jane Sheal. After seven years of courtship and engagement, they were married by an Episcopal minister because Jane, a "stubborn Methodist" by her own description, refused to be married in the rites of the Catholic Church. Although Frank was automatically barred by his marriage from receiving the sacraments of his church, Ma Lausche, a devout Catholic, proudly welcomed her daughter-in-law into the family with a bouquet of six dozen American Beauty roses...
Died. Will Winton Alexander, 71, onetime Methodist minister, and an authority on race relations, who as administrator (1937-40) of the U.S. Farm Security Administration supervised the rehabilitation of thousands of Southern tenant farmers; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill...