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...February Digest of 1962 reproduced the cover of its first issue and reprised its first reprinted article, "How to Keep Young Mentally," which encouraged charter subscribers to "Observe! Remember! Compare!" Another feature of this first issue, also reproduced, was a varied collection of homilies, designed to plump out a page and satisfy the public appetite for bite-size sermons. Examples...
...interests in the projects it builds. For example, instead of collecting a $100,000 construction fee for the Phoenix shopping center, Webb got an equity share that brought in $80,000 annually for seven years, later was sold for $1,000,000. Enterprising Del Webb figures that such plump profits will look like peanuts at the baseball game once his Texas-sized land development gets off the ground...
Last week brisk, plump "By" Woodbury was happily adding up the visible evidence of progress made in 1961. His mission helpers had made more than 13,500 baptisms. In the last six months, Britain's Mormons have broken ground for 24 new churches, and they plan to start on 26 more by July. Says Woodbury, who expects his church to baptize 30,000 converts next year: "We are planting a fertile harvest for the Lord...
Died. Florence Kathryn Lewis, 50, quietly powerful daughter of the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, a plump, outwardly placid woman who left Bryn Mawr to become her father's secretary, buffered his fierce temperament with her own dexterous diplomacy, eventually rose to become boss of District 50. the U.M.W.'s vehicle for organizing outside the mining industry; in Manhattan...
...years, the plump, prosperous Milwaukee Journal (circ. 383,850) enjoyed the steady serenity of labor-management peace. Other papers might be pestered by strikes, but not the Journal-and the reason seemed obvious. On the Journal, labor is management-at least in theory. Some 1,025 of the paper's 1,550 fulltime employees hold a lion's share (72½%) of the voting stock; conceivably they can give orders even to Board Chairman Harry J. Grant (TIME cover, Feb. 1, 1954). "If they don't like me," Grant once said, "they can fire me." Last week...