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...early version of the Wankel, used in the NSU Spider sports car since 1964, proved sufficiently promising for NSU to go ahead with the venture and commit virtually all its resources to it. Meanwhile, 17 firms, including Curtiss-Wright Corp. and Outboard Marine Corp. in the U.S., Rolls-Royce in England and Alfa Romeo in Italy have paid NSU for licenses for the new engine. Citroen of France set up a joint corporation with the small German carmaker to produce a Wankel-powered auto by the beginning...
Died. Guy Warner Vaughan, 82, president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. from 1935 to 1949, whose love of speed took him from auto racing and designing (the 1908 Vaughan Runabout) into aviation, where he mass-produced 2,000 airplane engines per month during World War I, went on to develop the first truly U.S. engine (the Whirlwind J5, which powered the Spirit of St. Louis), and expanded his company in World War II to produce 142,840 engines and 26,269 military aircraft; of chronic bronchitis; in-New Rochelle...
...psychiatric services for disturbed children, hopes to find out "what's bugging problem youngsters and why they cannot tick." Arlington, Va., educators are considering a music center, a planetarium and a science day camp. Responding to a survey in the trade publication, Grade Teacher, Detroit Teacher Jean Curtiss declared: "Oh boy, I'd like to see to it that every child came to school decently clothed, especially with warm clothes" (part of the federal allotment can, in fact, be spent on clothing). Other instructors want to use their money for such aids as film strips, slide projectors, tape...
Then as now, most student political activists were on the left, but the right was by no means inactive. Conservatives Merwin K. Hart Jr. '40 and Sidney Q Curtiss Jr. '40 charged that the money collected for Spanish relief the year before had actually been used for a "communistic demonstration" in Harlem. Their charge provoked how is of protest, and Student Council president Francis Keppel '38 promised to investigate...
Railroad Financier Arthur Curtiss James was one of the least-known philanthropists in the U.S.-if his beneficiaries blabbed that they were getting money, James took it back.* He secretly gave away some $20,000,000 before he died in 1941, but he was famous chiefly for his beard, his fancy for orchids and yachts, and his ownership of securities representing one-seventh of the railroad mileage of the U.S. An urbane fellow, James listed hirrlself in Who's Who as a "capitalist...