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...more than 200 years steelmakers fashioned strips and sheets by drawing hot ingots through rolling mills, then laboriously smoothing and polishing the rough surfaces. In 1921 young, blond, solidly-built Abram Peters Steckel, engineering student, watched sweating men in a wire plant reduce cold rods to thin wire by successive draws through rollers and dies. Mechanically-minded Steckel thought the same idea could be used in reducing steel strips and sheets. He built a crude cold-rolling mill in a friend's garage, went broke...
...Lippincott, Bradford Morton N. Gondelman Dodie Bloom, Brookline Richard Le B. Goodwin Bess Ogden, Pine Manor Morris Gray Martha Turner, Cambridge David N. Harris Ann Jo Woodward, Winchester Richard Harte, Jr. Jackie de Sieges, Vassar Fredrick B. Harvey, Jr. Pussy Cassidy, Easton, Md. William H. Haskell Virginia Grant, Weston Abram W. Hatcher Margaret Gaft, Cambridge Robert A. Hawkins Virginia Garland, Mt. Ida Peter J. Hearst Gretchen Thannhauser, Brookline Richard Henry, Jr. Martha Elliott, Wellesley Carl M. Herbert, Jr. Ann Whitter, Cambridge Richard Herr Posy Platt, Wellesley Thomas A. J. Herzford Gay Crosby, Wellesley Henry R. Heyburn Phoebe Rotch, Boston John...
...team chosen to go to Princeton consists of Harold M. Bailin, John E. de Valpine, and Richard L. Weinberg. Abram J. Chaynes, Maurice Friedman, and John W. Sullivan will oppose Yale at Cambridge, while Victor M. Kumin, and Donald F. Waterman will serve as alternates...
...paintings, prints, drawings and pieces of sculpture in the Academy show, 331 were by nonmembers. All 525 had a staid, collective conformity. To Academicians, as usual, went the pick of the 16 prizes. Painter Abram Poole got a $750 Altman Prize for Young Dancer, a demure Victorian damsel in a flowing pink dress. To the new president, tweedy, grey-haired Hobart Nichols, went an award for Winter Pattern, one of his customary snow-covered landscapes. Said pleased President Nichols: "The Academy is like a pendulum to a clock-it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room...
...Abram J. Chaynes, 16, of Chicago; Senn High School...