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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wherever a column of print fell short of page length, the Observer dropped in an item whose only visible purpose was to reach the bottom of the page. Sample: "John E. Roberts, editor of Charity and Children, was elected president of the Baptist Public Relations Association last week...
...Detectable Plan. Inside, the Observer scattered, according to no detectable pattern, a clutch of articles, feature stories, puzzles, pictures, cartoons, weather maps and poetry (including all 60 lines of John Greenleaf Whittier's Barbara Frietchie). Two stories on Pope John XXIII ran on separate pages (4 and 26); an obituary on Violinist Fritz Kreisler appeared on page 8, an obituary on French Artist Andre Lhote on page 15. Readers anxious to discover how the new paper would deal with U.S. culture were soon disillusioned: the Observer begged the question. Theater and book reviews were shot through with a rehash...
Some pastors play up the tithers' tax benefits: federal laws allow the taxpayer to deduct up to 30% of gross income as church charity. There are a few ministers who hint at even greater financial benefits. A classic example occasionally cited: Oilman Charles Page, who when down on his luck was told by a Salvation Army lassie that he would prosper if he tithed. Starting by giving her 15? out of his last dollar, Page promised to tithe, eventually struck oil. "I couldn't miss," he used to say after he had made his pile...
...ideas but unfortunately keeps them in an itsy-bitsy brain. "I'm a unsussessful crinimal," Bugsy sighs, "because I had a unhappy childhood. My parents didn't understand me. I spoke English, they spoke Hungarian." To win success and "get my name on the front page of every history book," Bugsy resolves to commit "the greatest crime of the censury"-a $3,000,000 bank robbery in Boston...
...hockey championships should the team be Invited to compete. Last week the FCAS announced its decision to allow the team to play in the ECAC, the Eastern championships, but not in the NCAA, where Harvard would be playing teams from Western Hockey League. Following are excerpts from the 15-page UAC report and the answers provided by the FCAS in a letter to UAC head Mark Woodbury...