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...globe-girdling churches, supported 5,091 denominational schools, financed 108 hospitals and in clinics, including leper colonies. They are strong in the South Pacific, and have breached the Iron Curtain, counting among their members 20,000 in Communist China and 40,000 in Soviet Russia. But Adventists are proudest of all of the tropical growth rate of the South African Division: 70,000 converts in the past four years...
...also a builder. As of last week he was deeply involved in the financing and construction of $700 million worth of buildings, ranging from a 23-story Hilton Hotel in London to a Barclays Bank in South Africa. Largest and proudest of these is the 59-story Pan Am Building, now climbing above Manhattan's Grand Central Station, for which Cotton supplied $25 million of the $100 million cost; he will manage the finished building. Cotton remembers the ground-breaking with special pride. "It was a great thrill," he says, "seeing the Union Jack flying beside the Stars...
...happy being a blonde bombshell and all that jazz") to modern psychological drama ("Maybe the unnatural things in life are the only safe ones to write about these days"), the Harvards gave Actress Shelley Winters, 39, a standing ovation. Shelley's reaction: "One of the proudest achievements of my life. I'll brag about...
Died. Irving McNeil Ives, 66, two-term (1946-58) U.S. Senator from New York, a quiet upstate Republican who identified himself with labor's cause, fought in the Senate-often alongside then Senator John F. Kennedy-for clean unions, but was proudest of his success as a state assemblyman in pushing through New York's pioneering Fair Employment Practices Act prohibiting racial or religious discrimination in hiring; following stomach surgery; in Norwich...
Firm Foundation. Like all good paragraphers, Bill Vaughan takes a whimsical view of his craft. "Paragraphing was always based on a firm foundation of mutual plagiarism," he says. "It may be that paragraphs are hard to sell because editors are accustomed to swiping them." Vaughan is proudest of one of his paragraphs that was widely plagiarized and wound up as a footnote to history: "One day I wrote that President Millard Fillmore had lent encouragement to Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and that out of gratitude Morse had named the characters of the Morse code...