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...American frontier. The grandson of an immigrant German cooper, Merk graduated from the University of Wisconsin, eventually moved to Harvard. There, in the quietest of voices and with the gentlest of manners, he gave the course known to the catalogue as History 162 but to the campus as "Wagon Wheels," which annually reopened the frontier not only to thousands of Harvard students but also to Nieman Fellowship journalists such as A. B. Guthrie, who was inspired by Merk's sweeping narratives to write...
...Ejector. A hay-bale ejector that can be attached to standard balers was put on sale by Deere & Co. Operated by one man, the ejector takes each bale as it conies out of the press, heaves it eight feet into the air and into a wagon coupled behind the baler. Price...
...station-wagon load of mail every day," says Wright, "a lot of it from people who want to know the name of the song played at 3:12 yesterday afternoon." Yet when the station asked whether listeners wanted numbers identified on the air, 15,000 wrote in to scotch the notion. The music is also popular with merchants. "I asked a store clerk the other day where they got their nice music," says Wright, "and he said, 'Why, that's your station.' " WPAT's only problem is a product of its success: so many advertisers...
...stay in an ivory tower 'at Charlottesville was a pleasant interlude. He spent hours playing with his 13-month-old grandson Paul Summers (his daughter Jill is married to a third-year law student at the university). He also toured nearby Civil War battlefields in a battered station wagon. He and his wife lived in a Georgian house just a 15-minute walk from the rolling campus that Thomas Jefferson picked for the university he designed and started to build. Normally shy, Faulkner delighted school officials by accepting outside speaking invitations...
LOWEST-PRICED U.S. CAR of standard size will be Studebaker-Packard's new "Scotsman," which will go on sale this fall. Prices, including heater, defroster, excise taxes, delivery: $1,776 for two-door sedan, $1,995 for two-door station wagon...