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Gail S. Weiser Reading, Pa...
Penn State did all this, and still remained the Avis of big-time college football. It was a frequent also-ran in the weekly A.P. and U.P.I, polls of sportswriters and coaches, but never was it No. 1. This year, however, the men from State College, Pa., finally made it to the top -first in all the polls and, after last week's 17-10 win over intrastate rival Pittsburgh, the only major unbeaten team left in the nation...
...American Steel & Wire Co. in 1917, Hood served as that firm's president for twelve years (1938-49) before moving over to the top post of another subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. In 1951 he was responsible for the construction of the $400 million Fairless Works near Morrisville, Pa., one of the largest steel complexes ever built, and two years later he won the presidency of "Big Steel...
DIED. Harry Bertoia, 63, Italian-born sculptor and furniture designer; of a pulmonary hemorrhage; in Barto, Pa. Bertoia first achieved recognition in 1952 when he unveiled his now classic chair: an upholstered, diamond-shaped wire shell sus pended in a steel cradle. He was later noted for welding metal rods and plates into dandelion-like bursts and honeycombed wall screens, and for creating his "sounding sculptures," clusters of wires and bars that turned sonorous when brushed by hand or wind...
...part, Cathy, who lives in Allentown, Pa., says that she is "ashamed, heartbroken and disgusted" that the book was ever written. "Christina described my mother as everything horrible. It is so unbalanced! Maybe my relationship with my mother was good and Christina's was not. But I do know that my mother was not a monster...