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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...
...With a government decision authorizing his Cunard Eagle line to make daily flights to the U.S. East Coast beginning next May, London's handsome Harold Bamberg, 37, won the first round in his battle to snatch some of the lucrative transatlantic trade away from Britain's state-owned BOAC and BEA. Bamberg started his line in 1948 with a surplus Halifax bomber that he bought for $420. Specializing in low fares and package plans (he is also chairman of a big London tourist agency), he parlayed his Halifax into a 20-plane fleet flying fringe European and Caribbean...