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...Convinced that Notre Dame men would be better off concentrating on more social sports than football, Industrialist James Gerity Jr. of Adrian, Mich, gave the university $5,000 to stimulate interest in golf and bridge. "Knowing how to play golf," said Gerity, "is especially important for business people in sales and promotion. A lot of labor leaders are playing golf and bridge instead of poker and pinochle...
...painting was to celebrate the way that Bridgeport's Steinkraus has turned a white elephant of a factory at nearby Adrian, Mich. into a healthy pink. Bridgeport Brass took over the plant 22 months ago (after five companies had leased it and given it up in rapid succession) to make aluminum forgings and extrusions, its first major venture into the aluminum business...
Chamber of Commerce president, reminded an Adrian Chamber of Commerce meeting that his company, now the second biggest U.S. independent copper and brass fabricator, had been founded on land given by Circusman P. T. Barnum in Connecticut. Said he: "We knew how to handle elephants." After the meeting, Steinkraus started organizing a plantwide White Elephant Club to get the employees to work cutting costs, stepping up production...
...coast, 2,500 ft. up a mountain on a lush plateau full of monkeys, birds and wild flowers, where the temperature ranges from 68° to 78° the year round. She bought the Brazilian Shangri-la for peaceful, isolated vacations after a visit to her friends. Couturier Adrian and his wife, oldtime Cinemactress Janet Gaynor, who have a home across the valley. To begin with, Singer Martin will build a small house (bedroom, kitchen, bath) on the plateau, which is 250 miles from the nearest telephone, and is reachable only by plane and a final bruising 30-mile drive...
...deep feeling for an American way of design not only by birth but by the surroundings of her early environment. She was born (May 24, 1905) in historic Frederick, Md., where Francis Scott Key practiced law and where the Barbara Frietchie legend sprouted. Claire's father, Adrian Leroy McCardell, was an Evangelical and Reformed Church elder and Sunday-school superintendent, a 33rd-degree Mason, a Maryland state Senator, a member of the state tax commission, and president (like his father before him) of the Frederick County National Bank. Her mother, Eleanor, was a Southern belle who still lives...