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...also the coach of the Pierson College baseball team whose head is filled with major-league statistics, and trainer of the Pierson football team whose bag is crammed with adhesive tape, aspirin, oranges and a Bible. But to all Yalemen, Chaplain Lovett is the ever-genial "Uncle Sid," who has probably done more than anyone else to bring God and man together at Yale...
Friendly Ambassador. While shaping his "Utopian Department" of religion, Uncle Sid was still always available to students in trouble. He considered himself, says one colleague, not so much a teacher and preacher as a "Christian pastor." He arranged loans, gave counsel, often acted as a sort of friendly ambassador between a boy and his parents. He could cheer a room with his gift for mimicry or by sporting one of his large assortment of strange hats. But his burdens were often heavy. Once a graduate student came to him and tearfully blurted that he had incurable cancer. It was Uncle...
Last week Uncle Sid announced that he would retire from Yale in June, and after a vacation at his home in New Hampshire ("There I might get acquainted again with my three children and nine grandchildren") he and his wife will leave for Hong Kong, where he will serve as Yale-in-China representative at New Asia College. But in talking over his plans, he was not wholly his jovial self. "I shall miss the boys," said he, "the sinners as well as the saints." Yale's saints and sinners could say the same...
...Sid Caesar Invites You: Reunited with Imogene Coca for the first time in 3½ years, and ending his own seven-month layoff, a tense, thinner (by 26 lbs.) Caesar had an off night by the standards of the funniest man in television. Yet even drizzle is welcome in a drought. Into his new half-hour show on ABC, Caesar crammed two sketches: one, too long, cast him and Imogene as a pair of chronic not-marrieds who were flung at each other by well-meaning friends; the other, too short, was a spoof on the current rash...
...Central with newspaper ads attacking its operating policies. Gradually, he softened confidence in the Central's management until he finally captured the road with the help of a dazzling financial trick. Using friends for financial help, as he often did, Young got Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson to buy 800,000 shares of Central stock owned by the C. & 0. (which had been prevented by the Interstate Commerce Commission from voting its shares) so they could vote the stock for Young. Not only had the stock been bought completely on borrowed cash, but Young actually got Central...