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Born. To the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 32, softspoken, strong-willed Baptist minister who led Montgomery, Ala. Negroes in the 1956 fight to integrate the city's bus line, and Coretta King, 33; their third child, second son; in Atlanta...
...Softspoken, middle-sized, myopic Marshall Field Jr., 44, has the mild, diffident mien of a church usher. Ho neither looks nor acts like a fighter, but the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News is enthusiastically engaged in a scrap. What is more, he picked it. With his two papers, Field is hurling a daily challenge at the late Robert Rutherford McCormick's big and powerful morning Tribune...
Died. Junius Spencer Morgan, 68, banker, philanthropist and expert yachtsman in the tradition of his father, J. P. Morgan, and grandfather, J. Pierpont Morgan; after an emergency operation for an intestinal hemorrhage; in an Ontario hospital after a hunting trip. Pipe-smoking and softspoken, he never made big headlines like J. Pierpont or J. P. II, and once gratefully accepted a 1? refund on his federal income...
When Adon Taft goes to church, someone is forever mistaking him for the minister. The error is understandable because Taft looks and acts like one. He is tall, deacon-grave, bespectacled, softspoken; above his generous brow, from which the hair is steadily receding, there sometimes seems to hover a nimbus of reflected light. He neither smokes nor drinks, goes to church 200 times a year, is married to a church organist, and reads the Scriptures to his two young daughters. Taft's calling is not spiritual, except at one remove. Adon Taft, 34, is a working newsman...
Though husbands may moan over the decline of home cooking in the U.S., the era of the TV dinner has been rich fare for a softspoken, Georgia-born paper salesman named R. Carl ("Hap") Chandler, 41. Chandler heads Standard Packaging, which makes material for trays that can be cooked, bags that can be boiled. Says Chandler happily: "Everything that we make is thrown away...