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Long-Range Bet. Canadian-born John Holloway, 55, who joined Crane as an accountant in 1935, inherits a down-to-earth tradition left by Chicago's Richard Teller Crane, who founded the company in 1855. Long after he had made his fortune in fittings and valves, Crane liked to shock Chicago hostesses by booming that he was nothing but a plumber...
...Canadian-born Dr. Huggins settled in Chicago soon after he got out of Harvard Medical School and began seeking ways to relieve the human misery that cancer causes. Unlike many of his colleagues, who can do pure research with an eye to the far future, Dr. Huggins has never been able to sound dispassionate. His belief in the frontal attack-what he calls "cancer, research with one eye on the cancer of man" -has led him into more than one chase after rainbows, such as a universal blood test for cancer. But it has also led him, after a trying...
...Armory and Arsenal at Springfield, Mass, retired an old civil service employee who had spent the past 34 years there working on rifles. At a testimonial dinner, shy, Canadian-born John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real...
Died. Gertrude Maynard Anderson, 48, Canadian-born exactress, and second wife of Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Maxwell (Both Your Houses, Winterset) Anderson; by her own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning) ; near New City...
Died. Charles Aubrey Eaton, 84, Republican Congressman from New Jersey for 14 terms (1925-52) and unwavering internationalist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Canadian-born (Pugwash, Nova Scotia) "Doc" Eaton entered Congress at 56 after a career as a Baptist minister (he steered his nephew, Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, away from the ministry because "there is more than one way to serve God"), reporter, magazine editor (Leslie's Weekly) and industrial consultant. Although he kept up a running attack on New Deal-Fair Deal domestic policies, he plugged for bipartisanship in foreign affairs, helped found the United...