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...Morris Mott, forward for the California Golden Seals and another erudite athlete, is a doctoral candidate in history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Then there is Mike Marshall, the Dodger relief pitcher and winner of the Cy Young Award. He retreats to Michigan State every winter to work on his Ph.D. in motor development in children (TIME, Aug. 12). Denver Bronco Quarterback Charley Johnson has a 1971 doctorate in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Johnson, who specialized in the expansion characteristics of plastics, works in the offseason as an engineer and salesman...
Atop a Manhattan apartment building, General Motors Heir Stewart Mott tends some 200 varieties of vegetables and herbs on a twentieth-of-an-acre penthouse spread that houses six chickens and a working compost heap...
...questionable connections of many psychic researchers, in addition to the paucity of objectively verifiable results in their work, has made it difficult to raise funds for research; parapsychologists barely squeak by with money from a few foundations and gifts and encouragement from occasional philanthropists like Stewart Mott and Manhattan Realtor John Tishman. There is only one academic chair on parapsychology in the U.S., at the University of Virginia. Should the findings prove depressingly negative, it is unlikely that academies or foundations would encourage more chairs, or promote further psychic investigations...
...seemed to me... most appropriate that some time be set aside for all of us who formerly had to hang our heads when Mother's Day and Father's Day rolled around," Stewart R. Mott, millionnaire philanthropist and 1973 Non-Father of the Year, explained...
...Mott, a 36-year-old bachelor, spoke briefly before the awards presentation in Boston. "When I won the award, I decided I had two obligations: not to procreate during 12 months, and to learn more about the organization," Mott said...