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Lewis, an Anglican, has always had a following among Roman Catholics. But the major Lewis shrine exists at a collection on British Christian writers (including Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers) at Wheaton College in Illinois, a staunchly Evangelical Protestant school. In Curator Clyde S. Kilby's vault are many unpublished Lewis treasures: boyhood writings, diaries and 1,000 of his letters, including lifelong correspondence with Arthur Greeves, a friend from his Belfast youth...
Harvard grabbed all three places in both the pole vault and the high jump. Junior standout Geoff Stiles drew roars from the crowd with a spectacular vault of 16-ft. in the former event, while co-captain Dan Sullivan Fosbury-flopped his way over the bar at 6-ft., 8-in. to triumph in the latter. Senior Chris Queen put the shot 54-ft., 7.5-in. to complete the Crimson's clean sweep afield...
Whodunit? The FBI and bank officials could only assume it was an inside job. First, the thief had to get by several sets of guards (who log all comings and goings in the vault area) as well as TV monitors over the entrance. Then he presumably had to have one of the cart's four keys, to which supposedly only the chief teller, his supervisor and a few bank officers had access. The thief must evidently have been so familiar a figure in the bank that he was able to leave unnoticed with a haul that weighed a mere...
...which makes little difference to Jacob Rubin. Says he: "I was offended that no one-not even American-born citizens-wanted to buy the painting." George Washington, he feels, deserves better than a dark, deserted storage vault-no matter who painted his likeness...
...under pressure: Coca-Cola, which has all but stopped making Coke in India. The company had been ready to reach an agreement on mixed ownership, but rejected India's demand for the formula for Coke's syrup, a secret that is supposedly locked in a Georgia bank vault and known to only ten people in the world...