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...second wife Natalie, a Sarah Lawrence graduate whom Mauldin met at a Manhattan party after the war, has learned not to talk to Bill at bedtime, when his glazed eyes tell her he has fallen into an inspirational mood. The neighbors are used to the predawn roar of Mauldin's 14-year-old Jeep; he is off to the paper to make some suddenly visualized change in his cartoon...
...toward the shadowed dugout, looking for all the world like a dejected pitcher who had just been shelled out of a crucial game. Only when his teammates swarmed about to pat his back and the Independence Day crowd of 74,246 at Yankee Stadium* cut loose with a tumultuous roar did a faint grin flicker across the lips of Edward ("Whitey") Ford, the New York Yankees' crafty southpaw pitcher. Whitey Ford had just won his ninth straight game and lifted the Yankees into first place in the American League-for at least a few hours-by setting down...
...cried. "How rotten can we be? How low can we sink as Americans before Americans rise up and say, 'Look-our heritage demands more than this; the memory of our men who have died fighting demands more than this.' " His spellbound audience exploded in a roar of applause...
Died. Melvin Jones. 82, hearty, back-slapping founder of Lions International and its longtime secretary-general, who helped make the Lions the world's largest service-club association with 625,539 members in 112 nations united under the motto "We Serve" and the theme song Roar, Lion, Roar; after a series of strokes; in Flossmoor...
Guarding the great white building on Fifth Avenue, the two stone lions that roar only at virgins are probably the friendliest beasts in the Manhattan jungle. Last week the New York Public Library was 50 years old and, it happily boasted, "used by more persons for more purposes than any other library in the world...