Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moorings. Pittsburgh Businessman Carl Volkwein, who for 20 years owned cruisers ranging from 24 ft. to 30 ft. in length, switched to a 40-ft. houseboat two years ago so that he could treat clients and their families to weekend jaunts up the Allegheny; he has already ordered a 43-ft. replacement with even more room. Mystery Writer Erie Stanley Gardner likes houseboats so much that he operates two of them on California's Sacramento River. "They're my floating offices, the only place in the world where I can really get away from it all in comfort...
...happens, Rubenstein, 44, is not a disaffected atheist but an ordained rabbi in good standing and a Jewish chaplain at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also teaches humanities. One of the most interesting of American Judaism's younger theologians, he is at least a spiritual cousin of Christianity's "death-of-God" thinkers, who are considerably more enthusiastic about his work than are Rubenstein's fellow Jews...
Harvard sophomore Larry Terell provided the biggest upset of the three-day tournament by defeating second seeded Bob Heatherington of Pittsburgh 15-10, 15-8, 9-15, 11-15, 15-11. Heatherington was runnerup in last year's championship...
...Pittsburgh 1--Boston...
...Pittsburgh Banker Richard Mellon, called on Saunders in Roanoke to of fer him the opportunity of running the nation's largest railroad. Saunders accepted without hesitation. When he moved to Philadelphia, he took along a cadre of N. & W. executives who are still known around headquarters as the "Virginia Mafia." Before long the Mafiosi had eased 550 oldtimers into retirement. Almost nothing about the Pennsy remained untouched. Saunders, who collects cookbooks as a hobby, even hired a new chef for the executive dining room, ordered him not to serve diet lunches...