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Development. A good man with a slide rule, and a born boss, he advanced to superintendent at Llewellyn, stayed with the company after a merger formed the Consolidated Steel Corp. in 1929, was executive vice president and director before his 32nd birthday. In 1937 he quit his job to set out on his own. First step: he helped organize the Los Angeles engineering firm of Bechtel-McCone Corp., which he headed. Second step: he married Idaho-born Rosemary Cooper. During World War II, Bechtel-McCone operated an Army Air Forces modification center...
...Michigan's first lady, it seems, nothing is too good-or too big. In the limelight at a 43rd birthday party for Governor Gerhard Mennen ("Soapy") Williams' wife Nancy was a great big cake thoughtfully donated by a Lansing restaurateur, who happens to have the cafeteria concession in the new State Office Building. Modeled after the State Capitol, the 48-layer, 4½-ft-tall goody measured 22 ft. in perimeter, weighed 650 Ibs., required 500 eggs, 90 Ibs. of butter, 120 Ibs. of sugar, was hauled to Detroit by truck in six sections. Sharing the buttercream mess...
...rapturous cheers of 1,500 well-wishers from 62 countries, ever-beaming Ideologist Frank Buchman, founder of the Moral Re-Armament movement, celebrated his 80th birthday by presiding over the gathering of his clan at M.R.A.'s Mackinac Island (Mich.) summer training center. Between speeches of praise from devotees, Buchman pored over laudatory messages from (among others) West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines, and 20 U.S. Senators...
...Lowell Birthday...
Depression despair was abated in December as President Lowell celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. Almost a year later, however, the College was saddened when it was announced that Charles Townsend Copeland, the beloved Copey, was moving from his Hollis 15 suite to a new home on Concord Avenue in Cambridge. At the age of seventy-two, the man who had read his way4When the Class of 1933 entered Harvard, the wing was being added to the sprawling mass in the North Yard that is Langdell Hall, making it the largest law library in the world. Twenty-five years later, Langdell...