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...miles out in the Pacific, off San Diego, at the site of a sewer-construction project. Strapped to a pontoon was an injured workman, his leg broken by a whiplashing cable. Suddenly the chopper tilted and crashed into the water. Aboard the barge, preparing to inspect the pipe 217 ft. down on the ocean floor, Jon Lindbergh, 31, deep-sea-diver son of Air Hero Charles Lindbergh, stripped off his gear, dived in and swam 100 yds. to the crash. Working under water, Lindbergh swiftly cut the injured man free from the wreckage. But the odds were against...
Atlanta's ambitious Emory University, which had searched a year for a new president, last week snagged just the man. He is Sanford Soverhill Atwood, 50, pipe-smoking provost of Cornell University. In grabbing Presbyterian Atwood, the trustees, who by charter are two-thirds Methodists, happily broke a tradition of Methodists as presidents that goes clear back to the school's founding 127 years ago. Atwood simply "swept this campus by storm," said Acting President Judson C. Ward...
Died. Harold ("Pop") Nathan, 83, holder of the FBI's No. 2 badge and J. Edgar Hoover's right-hand man during the gang-busting 1930s, a small, owl-eyed pipe smoker who looked more like a bookkeeper than the top cop who cracked down on the Black Hand extortion ring, the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers, and the slayers of Mobster Frank Nash; after a long illness; in San Francisco...
...Lichfield (where Diocletian slaughtered 1,000 Christians), and strides barefoot through the city, crying: "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield!" The doughty little evangelist Billy Bray hears the Lord speaking to him. "Worship me with clean lips," the Lord thunders. In ecstasy, Billy stomps on his favorite pipe, muttering solemnly: "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
Despite many personal details (Bertrand Russell, we learn, smokes a pipe and reads detective stories) and ostentatious visual descriptions of each philosopher's appearance (which the author obviously had to ask for), it is difficult from Ved Mehta's elliptical notes to get a good grip on just what the men are or what they stand...