Word: bamberg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain, the name of Harold Bamberg has always figured on any list of up-by-the-bootstraps businessmen. He quit school at 17, joined the wartime R.A.F. and rose to the position of sergeantpilot. Later he acquired two old Halifax bombers, won some contracts to haul freight during the Berlin blockade, and went on to build an airline. Bamberg became a sterling millionaire. He played polo with Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park, traveled between country manor and luxury London flat in a chauffeured Rolls fitted with telephone, dictating machine and the license plate "H.B. 100." When asked...
Founded in 1891 by two ambitious young engineers, Englishman Charles E. L. Brown and Bamberg-born Walter Boveri, the firm got going with a felicitous marriage. Boveri's father-in-law, a wealthy Zurich silk merchant, provided the partners with an initial $170,000 stake. But technology was B.B.C.'s real dowry. The firm built a pioneering standard-gauge electric locomotive in 1899, rolled a long way with the expansion of European railroads, and soon began turning out early designs in circuit breakers, turbines and other heavy gear. And while its labs now work on cryogenics, lasers...
PAUL HANS BAMBERG...
Named were Paul G. Bamberg, Jr. '63 of Eliot House and Middletown, R.I., (physics); James A. Quitslund '63 of Eliot House and Bainbridge Island, Wash., (English); John H. Raaf '63 of Lowell House and Portland, Ore. (bio-chemical sciences); and Michael S. Rice '63 of Winthrop Hause and Sioux Falls, S.D., (government...
...Beta Kappa Junior Eight includes the following: Paul G. Bamberg of Eliot House and Middletown, R.I.; David S. Cole, of Lowell House and New York, N.Y.; Lawrence J. Corwin, of Winthrop House and Teaneck, N.J.; George A. Goldberg, of Quincy House and Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; Stephen C. Harrison, of Lowell House and Baltimore, Md.; Gary H. Lindberg, of Dudley House and Minneapolis, Minn.; David H. Sachs, of Leverett House and Yonkers, N.Y.; Raymond A. Sokolov, Jr., of Lowell House and Detroit, Mich...