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Shue has performed very well whenever he has broken into the lineup this spring, and neither centerfielder John Getch nor rightfielder Mo Balboni has been playing at his peak recently...
...ancient fear of leprosy is fast disappearing-so much so that the late Father Damien's famed settlement for leprosy patients on the Hawaiian island of Molokai is being opened to tourists. From a peak of 1,180 active cases in 1890, the settlement today has only 75. Since some 150 recovered patients prefer to remain, officials hope to give them a livelihood as guides and taxi drivers by encouraging outside visitors...
...prime rate for industrial loans is still at 4%, only ½% below the boom's peak, and keeps all other rates high...
SMALL-PLANE BOOM will lift industry to peak profits this year. In first quarter, Cessna Aircraft enjoyed most prosperous period in 31-year history, saw after-tax earnings jump 86% over a year ago to $1,586,000. Beech Aircraft's earnings climbed to $907,500 from $756,000 in last year's first quarter...
Died. Frank Kent, 80, Baltimore Sun and syndicated columnist (The Great Game of Politics), author (Political Behavior, A History of the Democratic Party); of uremic poisoning; in Baltimore. Kent was a registered Democrat, but his column-which at its peak in the '30s ran in well over 100 papers-was bitterly anti-New Deal, involved him in several celebrated controversies, e.g., with Harry Hopkins, to whom Kent attributed the statement: "We will tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect." Kent came out strongly for Eisenhower six months before the Republican Convention of 1952, continued to write...