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Bryn Mawr, Pa...
...earth to smaller, warm-blooded mammals. One theory is that the great die-off was caused by a sudden change of climate. Another is that the slow-witted, blundering dinosaurs could not cope with mammals that destroyed their eggs. Biochemist Albert Schatz of National Agricultural College, Doylestown, Pa. has a third theory: that the evolution of modern plants was the death of the dinosaurs...
Died. Helen Twelvetrees (Payne), fiftyish, oldtime Hollywood leading lady (to such stars as John Barrymore, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy), who played in State's Attorney, Disgraced, The Ghost Talks; by her own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); at Olmsted Air Force Base, near Harrisburg, Pa...
...years since he became school superintendent of little (pop. 8,400) Collingdale, Pa., heavy-jowled Faber E. Stengle, 67, seemed worth every penny of his annual $9,400 salary. He worked hard, taught a men's Bible class, and lived with his wife in modest style. His only self-indulgence appeared to be the new Buicks he bought in 1956 and 1957. But last week the shocked citizens of Collingdale found that their impeccable Dr. Jekyll is also a rather spectacular Mr. Hyde...
...sales of 2,489 planes worth $33 million (total sales: $70 million). First-quarter fiscal 1958 sales: a peacetime-record $20.7 million for Cessna, a near-record $20.8 million for Beech. Just below Beech and Cessna stands the third member of the Big Three: Piper Aircraft of Lock Haven, Pa., which concentrates on low-priced planes and whose ubiquitous Cub is known the world over. Piper's sales: a record $26.6 million in 1957, but down slightly in igsS's first quarter...