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...Alvin (named for Oceanographer Allyn Vine), is a perky little craft built by Litton Industries with Navy funds for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. It is 22 ft. long, weighs 13 tons, and has a reasonably conventional submarine shape, but the outside hull serves only for streamlining and control. When Alvin submerges, the water enters that thin skin freely. Inside is a 7-ft. sphere with walls of high-strength steel 1.33 in. thick to protect the crew from water pressure down to 6,000 ft. Its four viewing ports permit the pilot and observer to see ahead and below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanography: Deep-Down Submarines | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Some keener competition is abuilding for Merrill Lynch. Francis I. du Pont, Wall Street's fastest growing brokerage house (92 branches), last week announced plans to acquire Chicago's A. C. Allyn & Co. (24 branches). The du Pont firm was set up in 1931 by Francis du Pont, a great-grandson of Eleuthère Iréneé du Pont, founder of the Du Pont chemical empire, and grew big by catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Break with Tradition | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

Died. Benjamin Allyn Jones, 78, Calumet Farm's folksy, foxy trainer of six Kentucky Derby winners, including two holders of the Triple Crown, Whirlaway and Citation, whom he considered respectively his favorite and his greatest ("a Chinaman could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 23, 1961 | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...LLOYD ALLYN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 16, 1961 | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

Arthur Smithles, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and Chairman of the Department, disclosed in a letter to President Pusey that the award will come out of the $1800 annual income of the Allyn M. Young Memorial Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics Dep't. Creates Prize | 4/18/1961 | See Source »

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