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...graceful suspension bridges linking major U.S. arteries, designed and built New York's George Washington, Triborough and new Verrazano-Narrows bridges and played a major role in the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate and Delaware's Memorial bridges; after a brief illness; in Rye...
After six years of painful, reclusive silence, Author J. D. Salinger, 46, has produced another story. It's no Catcher in the Rye or Franny and Zooey-just one more refraction through his magic Glasses in the form of a letter that Seymour Glass, the fictional family's presiding guru and ghost, wrote home from Camp Hapworth, Maine, at the tender age of seven. Published in The New Yorker, the note is introduced briefly by Family Historian Buddy Glass, who for years has been garrulously obsessed by the memory of his suicide brother. By the letter, Childe Seymour...
...Growled NASA Director James Webb, "This was not an adequate performance by an astronaut." Gemini Pilots Virgil Grissom, 38, and John Young, 34, were on the carpet for something they did on their recent three-orbit mission. Gilruth and Webb told a congressional committee that the corned-beef-on-rye sandwich Young smuggled into their Molly Brown capsule and fed Grissom instead of the scientifically prepared flight diet was strictly unprogrammed. Mincing no words, the administrators decreed that henceforth "corned-beef-sandwich incidents" will cease. O.K. But how about bagels...
...Some of them are for a new University College based on Oxbridge, where each student wears a burgundy-colored robe and is assigned to a tutor. Manitoba's plant scientists are close to producing the first new species of grain developed by man: a combination of wheat and rye...
...being widely imitated. It is known as the "Bernbach Syndrome" after the ad firm of Doyle Dane Bernbach, and it consists of a wry, conversational, slightly apologetic approach to selling. Doyle Dane is responsible for some of the most fetching current ads, including those for Levy's Jewish Rye bread and the low-keyed, underdog-bidding Avis rent-a-car ads (which led Hubert Humphrey to say: "I try harder. I have to. I'm only No. 2"). Doyle Dane's new service series for American Airlines includes a radio spot that explains how American...