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...battle over Korea's MIG Alley one day last week, Major George A. Davis Jr., greatest of U.S. jet fighter aces, chopped down two Communist MIG-15s, his 13th and 14th kills in the Korean war. With a wingman, he swept past ten more MIGs looking for the day's third victim...
...belongs to Manhattan's Trinity Church. This onetime landmark on the New York skyline, which now nestles prim and diminutive between office buildings at the head of Wall Street, owns five chapels and an estimated $35 million worth of city real estate. This week Trinity inducted its 13th rector-redheaded Dr. John Heuss Jr., 43, present director of the Episcopal Church's national department of Christian education...
Working back through the hospital's records, De Angelis found many references to the "beneficial influence of soft and melodious music on the flow of mothers' milk." A 13th Century miniature showed players wearing costumes and carrying bagpipes* marked with the hospital's emblem. These, De Angelis concluded, were used to make lactogenic music until the shawm replaced the bagpipe...
...less than cordial. One day when the Air Force reported 13 German JU-88s on the radar screen and the pips turned out to be twelve ducks, Gallery gleefully asked for full technical details "of this revolutionary development in bombardment aircraft." He also asked what had become of the 13th. Says Gallery: "The colonel made a very silly, unmilitary, and totally impracticable suggestion as to what I could do with that missing duck if I found...
...latest physics and astronomy, said the Pope, "true science discovers God in an everincreasing degree-as though God were waiting behind every door." In particular, he told the Pontifical Academy of Sciences,* the proofs of God's existence which St. Thomas Aquinas advanced in the 13th Century are constantly being buttressed anew by the discoveries of science...