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...traffic-safety organizations for failing to make automobiles more "crash-worthy." Written by an unknown 31-year-old, the book did not make much of an impression at first. But G.M.'s investigation into Nader's life?and the public apology to him by the president of the company???made Nader famous overnight...
...proper Philadelphia family, went on from the University of Pennsylvania to take a law degree at Dickinson School of Law and work for a year in a large Philadelphia firm. When he found law incompatible, he turned to civic projects?the Robin Hood Dell concerts, the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company???and when the Depression struck, helped feed, clothe and house Philadelphia's unemployed. Under Miss Adams' influence Carroll had been trying his hand at horoscopes, and now he began to do them for the unemployed. He was impressed, he says, at how often the special ability indicated...
Last week Son Sherman was involved in the sort of fight that would have pleased his hard-hitting Yankee forbears. His Republican was accused of hoarding gold?$94,860. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau filed petition in Boston to collect double from the publishing company?...
...cars but consider myself their grandfather. I took my brother J. Frank from the farm twice and pushed him from shop to shop until he was drawing toolmaker wages. Then hired him for more pay, to assemble my first horseless buggy. He worked for me or my company???the first incorporated in America to build gasoline motor vehicles?for five years. Their successes were due largely to his superior work. The 1896?97 model was mostly his design and the first SDs were close copies. Failing health caused him to retire...
...interesting in the traditional academic scene as is onetime Morgan Partner Thomas Sovereign Gates who took charge of Pennsylvania's big, down-at-heel University two years ago. From its board of trustees Princeton had drafted the lumbering, plainspoken, understanding head of the country's second biggest life insurance company???Prudential Life's Edward Dickinson Duffield of the Class of 1892, descendant of Princeton's first president, Jonathan Dickinson, son of Rev. Thomas Duffield who taught in Princeton for 56 years, brother of Princeton's longtime (1901-30) Treasurer Henry Green Duffield. He would be in Princeton whole Tuesdays...