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Died. John Arnold Heydler, 86, old-time sportswriter, chairman of the board and longtime (1918-34) president of baseball's National League; after long illness; in San Diego. Heydler began his career as a printer's devil, once carried a proof of a Government document to the White House, where he recited Casey at the Bat for President Cleveland. He helped to install baseball's first commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and was a pioneer in establishing the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown...
...Willy Loman; the whole concept of leisurely dining has been disrupted by the energetic stage hands who work while the rest of the House eats. A producer must be a jack-of-all-trades at Harvard. He must know where he can rent lights for the cheapest rates, what printer will put out his program with the least delays, and he must be an architect, painter, and electrician to ready his show for an opening...
...Printer-Foreman Bill Meroney was part of a second procession: Reporter News workers having their hearts checked. Mrs. Adamson made sure that Meroney's questionnaire was completed ("Has anybody in your family ever had heart disease? Have you ever had rheumatic fever or scarlet fever?") After a blood-pressure reading, a nurse taped electrodes to Meroney's wrists and Dr. Adamson taped another pair to his ankles. Then the doctor switched on the ECG machine and got a reading of the electrical impulses generated with Meroney's heartbeats. He appeared to have a sound heart...
...take a typewriter out of the building he would have to surrender the card. In a breath, no one would get a card without a typewriter, and no one could leave with a typewriter without handing in a card. Unless someone can counterfeit these cards at a local printer, there would be no fear of lifted typewriters...
Benjamin Franklin once expressed the humorous hope that, by being embalmed in wine, he might come to life in the future "and observe the state of America . . . my dear country." Had his wish been fulfilled, Old Printer Franklin would have found America churning out printed matter beyond his wildest dreams (or fears). At present, he would have found a good deal of that printed matter devoted to himself, for this month marks the 250th anniversary of his birth. Among the month's Franklin literature...