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Eliot House continued its rule of the water as Ed Davis won the rowing singles and Bernie Flynn took the comps in House competition. Two other Eliot rowers, John Bigelow and John Austin, finished second and third in the comps...
LIGNITE, a poor-heating cousin to coal, will get its first big U.S. industrial test as a cheaper substitute for water power and natural gas in generating electricity. Alcoa has just opened a $100 million aluminum smelting plant (capacity: 90,000 tons annually) near Austin, Texas, which will experiment with lignite from the state's abundant supplies as an exclusive source of power...
WILLIAM PEERY Austin, Texas...
...understood without knowing the people who make it. This includes both the leading figures and the lesser lights whose works and words are worth recording. These stories may deal with lonely, isolated missionaries (e.g., Albert Schweitzer, TIME, July n, 1949) with prelates such as Pittsburgh's Episcopal Bishop Austin Pardue, who trains prospective ministers for his diocese by having them work in steel mills and coal mines (TIME, Dec. 31, 1951), or they may be stories on such figures as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and Rabbi Louis Finkelstein (TIME, April 14, 1952; Oct. 15, 1951). The third...
...Charles G. Mortimer, 53, moved up from executive vice president to president of General Foods Corp., largest U.S. maker of packaged foods (Birds Eye, Maxwell House, Jell-0, Swans Down, Baker's Chocolate, Gaines Dog Food, etc.). He succeeds Austin S. Igleheart, who became board chairman. A onetime adman, Mortimer discovered one day that Postum Co. (predecessor of General Foods) had just bought Sanka and, "with only a phone call," had canceled his profitable Sanka account, handed it over to a rival agency. Later the company saw the mistake and in 1928 hired him as Sanka's advertising...