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Headlined the Manchester Guardian: MIRACLE OF FAITH AT LORD'S. The stately London Times began its story: "Out of darkness, through fire into light. Thus did England yesterday rise like some phoenix from the ashes . . ." But best of all, what the Guardian's Cricket Critic Neville Cardus once called England's "proper spirit of hostility" was ablaze again...
Family Portrait. In Saskatoon, Sask., the Star-Phoenix carried this want ad: "Carpenter who smokes, drinks, and spits on the floor, 2 children . . . who write on walls and chop up floors, wife no better, desires to rent a house...
Insomniac. In Phoenix, after drilling through the door of the Parkway drugstore, a burglar passed up money and other valuables, chose three bottles of sleeping pills, disappeared into the night...
Ivory Tower. In Phoenix, Arizona State College Professor Herbert Gurnee was assigned a classroom for his summer psychology lectures, looked the room over, penned a note to the dean: "Room 103 is too small . . . poorly lighted . . . besides, there'll be too much traffic through it to conduct classes properly," since 103 was the men's restroom...
LIFE insurance should cost less next year as a result of the Government's higher-interest policies. Mutual companies (e.g., Phoenix, Massachusetts, Prudential) which have been increasing dividends to policyholders on the basis of lower mortality rates have a new reason to continue the trend: they are earning more on investments...