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...Throwing a baseball is an unnatural activity," says lanky, crew-cut Don Elston. 32. "It stretches and strains the muscles." But, as top relief pitcher for the lowly Chicago Cubs, Journeyman Ballplayer Elston is doing what comes unnaturally-and doing it uncommonly well. Trudging in from the Wrigley Field bullpen with monotonous regularity, he has appeared in 18 of his team's 43 games, won five of its 17 victories, and saved five other games-three last week alone-for hard-hit Cub starters. Says an admiring teammate: "Don Elston is the best 'short...
...research achievement that has nothing to do with the safety or effectiveness of false teeth, but may save their wearers embarrassment, was joyously reported to William Wrigley Jr. Co. stockholders: a new plastic to which chewing gum will not stick is almost ready for the denture trade...
...circular towers to a spiral ramp for automobiles, and the top 40 stories to pie-shaped apartments, each with its own balcony. Called Marina City, the project will fill a 3.1-acre plot, now occupied by a railroad siding bordering on the Chicago River hard by the famed Wrigley Building, will include drydock storage space for 700 boats, a theater, a ten-story office building, and a park. Cost: $36 million, to be financed by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Building Service Employees' International Union. It was the first time that such a project has been financed by a labor union...
...westward stream, especially to the resort area just east of Phoenix, was started in the '30s by rich men. Among them: Cleveland Inventor John C. Lincoln, who built the now-famous Camelback Inn on the lower slopes of Camelback Mountain; Chicago Chewing Gum Magnate William Wrigley, who founded the fabulous Arizona Biltmore and started a golf course colony nearby; International Harvester Heir Fowler McCormick, who went a little farther east into Paradise Valley to start what is now the richest winter residential area in the state...
Died. Ada E. Foote Wrigley, about 90, widow of William Wrigley Jr., who minted millions from chewing gum, owned baseball's Chicago Cubs; after eleven years in a coma; in Pasadena, Calif...