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This week the Senate is expected to confirm the newly appointed commissioner of patents, the 39th since the days when Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson personally handled the 200 applications made by Americans each year. He is Edward J. Brenner, 40, a reserved, rugged patent attorney and engineer for Esso, who will need all his own inventiveness to keep from foundering in a morass of words, charts and pictures...
Jack Benny last week celebrated his 39th birthday for the 32nd time...
...July, just two days short of Willard R. Gilliland's 39th birthday, when he left his home in Peters Township, south of Pittsburgh, to take his mother-in-law, his wife June and their five children to visit his mother in Pittsburgh, 15 miles away. The family had a typical three-generation reunion. When it was over, June Gilliland left first in one car to take her mother home. Willard Gilliland gave the kids another hour for ice cream and cake, then piled them into his new Volkswagen Microbus. He never got home. Only four miles short...
...General Henry Clay Hodges, 103, West Point's oldest alumnus (class of '81), who was born on the frontier, was appointed to the Military Academy by Ulysses S. Grant, campaigned against Comanches on the Pecos, Moro rebels in the Philippines, Pancho Villa in Mexico, and led his 39th Division to France in World War I, before retiring in 1920 to an old soldier's place of honor at every West Point graduation since then except two; in Stamford, Conn...
Transients Only. Some complain that the result is nothing more (or less) than an Ivy League hotel. But it seems to work. When the Princeton Club sold its rambling mansion on Park Avenue and 39th Street three years ago for $2.300,000, membership had slipped down to 3,100 (from a peak 4,000 in 1955). Today it has jumped to a record 4,800, and the applications are pouring in, though the dues have been raised from $90 to $150 a year (as of April...