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An unidentified "very prestigious American corporation" has offered to buy St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and the land on which it stands on Park Avenue for a sum said to be about $100 million, according to a spokesman for the church.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18--President Carter's news conference today, in which he had half an hour of free television time to address the nation and answer or avoid answering questions as he chose, was the ...

CHICAGO, Sept. 18--Twice thwarted in its bid to move into the Sun Belt through acquisition, the Jewel Companies now expects to achieve that goal by mid-November, when it is scheduled to complete its $150 million acquisition of Sav-On-Drugs Inc., the California-based chain.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18--President Carter said today that "to preserve the honor and integrity" of the United States, he would not apologize to Iran to obtain the release of the American hostages.

David Garth was leaving John B. Anderson's headquarters in Washington late one night, deep in conversation about the Presidential campaign of which he is now inextricably a part, when he interrupted himself and stopped at the door in front of him.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (AP)-- Personal income of Americans rose eight-tenths of 1 percent last month, reflecting higher wages and salaries and increased employment in manufacturing, the Government said today.

Katherine Anne Porter, whose critical acclaim for her short fiction outlived the later popular success of her 1962 novel, "Ship of Fools," died yesterday in the Carriage Hill Nursing Home in Silver Spring, Md. She was 90 years old.

THREE film series that range from the silver silence of Lillian Gish in "Broken Blossoms" to the gritty and noisy world of present-day Britain and American history as seen by Hollywood begin this weekend in New York. A fourth, devoted to films made in Berlin by Greta Garbo, who turned 75 yesterday, continues.

OTTAWA, Sept. 18--Canada's federal Government decided today that it would act alone to devise a new constitution despite expected opposition from several of the nation's 10 provinces, and announced that it would recall Parliament ahead of schedule to pursue its plans.

MOSCOW, Sept. 18--Andrei Voznesensky, the outspoken Soviet poet who has been under a cloud for taking part last year in a literary revolt against censorship, has paid tribute in a major Moscow literary journal to another independent Soviet poet, Boris Pasternak, who died in official disgrace 20 years ago.