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Baseball's newest immortal, New York Yankee Hurler Don Larsen, 27, who last October pitched the only perfect game in World Series history, finally got around to paying his estranged wife, mother of his 16-month-old daughter, some $400 in support arrears. Then Vivian Larsen, a former Baltimore telephone operator married to Larsen last year, dropped her separation suit against him, thus unfroze Larsen's $8,714.76 share of series money...
This letter to Dr. John Sutherland Bonnell of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is typical of the new kind of mail he has been getting since he installed "Dial-a-Prayer"-the newest contribution of science to salvation. Each day Dr. Bonnell records a new 30-second message on a magnetic drum, which is played back all day by a special machine.* Each hour an average 800 calls come in on ten trunk lines attached to the machine. The number (Circle 6-4200) is listed under the church's name as "Prayer Telephone," and is circulated...
During the 22 years since Conant's original proposal, funds for eight such unrestricted chairs as he envisaged have been donated. The newest chair, the Loeb University Professorship, is as yet unfilled. The retirements of Nobel prize physicist P. W. Bridgman '04 and of lawyer Zechariah Chafee, Jr. leaves two more chairs vacant. Holding the five remaining chairs are theologian Paul Tillich, economist Sumner H. Slichter, Middle East authority Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, classicist Werner W. Jaeger, and language expert I.A. Richards
...Democratic Senators, led by Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.) and Paul Douglas (Ill.), initiated this newest attempt to revise Rule XXII. The six northern Democratic liberals were joined recently by two Eastern Republicans, Irving Ives (N.Y.) and Clifford Case...
Meredith's newest idea is mortgages on automobile house trailers. Though many bankers consider trailer owners poor risks, Meredith argues, "Most of them are pretty solid-a lot are retired people who want to travel a little, and a lot are skilled and highly paid workers who have to go from one job to another.'' In 27 months National Life has lent $15 million at 5% and 6%. Total loss to date: $75. Says Meredith: "You have to keep up with modern developments...