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...assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, he started collaborating on a book ("It took the evenings of four years," says Mrs. DuBridge). The book, written with Physicist Arthur L. Hughes, turned out to be, at the time, the definitive work on photoelectricity. Lee DuBridge had made a dent on science at last...
...policy toward the hired help. Walter Kohler Sr., second-generation boss of the firm, housed Kohler workers in a beautiful model town, but would not give his workers the right to bargain collectively. An A.F.L. strike for union recognition in 1934 cost two lives, saw the strikers stone and dent the Kohler plant's front door, brought in the National Guard, ended with the union defeated (see cut). Eighteen years later labor attacked again, and this time breached the porcelain-hard curtain: the U.A.W. won an NLRB election, recognition as the employees' bargaining agent and a contract which...
Died. Prince Michael Cantacuzene, 79, prerevolutionary Russian general and former husband of Julia Dent Grant, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant; in Sarasota, Fla. Prince Cantacuzene met Julia Grant, daughter of onetime (1888-93) Ambassador to Austria-Hungary Major General Frederick D. Grant, at Cannes, married her in 1899, and was divorced by her in 1934, spent his last years as a Florida bank executive and manager of agricultural holdings...
Perhaps seeing the handwriting on the wall, veteran Announcer Dick Stark, who has earned as much as $150,000 a year selling Chesterfield cigarettes. Camay soap. Amm-i-dent toothpaste and Remington electric shavers, is now hard at work studying architecture and will quit broadcasting entirely when he graduates. Another high-income veteran, Ed Herlihy, had this month to make a tough decision: after eight years as announcer on NBC's Kraft TV Theater, Herlihy got the choice of signing an exclusive contract or leaving the show. He decided to stick with his other accounts (Colgate, Oldsmobile, French...
...from piston to turbine power and the first in history to buy anything but U.S. planes. With American Airlines, biggest U.S. line, shopping around for replacements for its 77-plane fleet of two-engine Convairs, U.S. planemakers will have to scramble to keep Vickers from making an even bigger dent in the short-haul airliner market. All told, the world's airlines have ordered 177 Viscounts, and many of the new planes will replace American equipment...