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...teaching fellowship to Yale. He worked summers as a helper in one of C.E.I.'s boiler plants, got a full-time job as a "junior tester" in 1926. Within a year he became a production engineer, later moved up as an assistant to C.E.I.'s President Eben Crawford, stepped into his shoes (and an $80,000 salary) at Crawford's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Voltage | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

Died. Irving Addison Bacheller, 90, whose optimistic fresh-air tales of upstate New York's "North Country" (Eben Hoiden, Barrel of the Blessed Isles, Silas Strong) were pre-Jazz Age favorites; in White Plains, N.Y. At 40, Bacheller left his job as Sunday editor of Pulitzer's New York World to finish his third novel (his first two were flops), Eben Holden, which sold a million copies and brought him sudden fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 6, 1950 | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...Eben Roy Alexander, 50, born in Omaha, was educated at St. Louis University, entered journalism in 1921 as a reporter on the St. Louis Star, four years later went to the Post-Dispatch, and in 1939 joined TIME as a Business writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For the Record | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Adieus. A little later Assistant Press Secretary Eben Ayers issued a noncommittal report on the tea. Said he: "Madame Chiang and Mrs. Marshall had tea together with the President and Mrs. Truman, with Margaret pouring, from 5 to 5:30. Then the President and Madame Chiang went to the President's study and talked for the next half hour. The President said Madame Chiang had stated her case and he had listened sympathetically. Then Madame Chiang rejoined the party and said her adieus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Over the Teacups | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Lawrence Scientific School closed its doors and passed out of existence. But in its 60-year life span, Abbott Lawrence's dream left an impression on United States scientific and educational practices that still remains. Professor Eben Norton Horsford gave the first course offered by the Lawrence Scientific School, and in keeping with the School's "practical" air, he also manufactured the panacea which the above handbill advertises. His acid phosphate, along with other products, was so successful that he resigned in 1863 to devote himself entirely to manufacturing. In honor of his endowed chair, the Rumford Professorship, Horsford named...

Author: By S. WILLIAM Green, | Title: Lawrence Scientific School Marked Era in U. S. Intellectual History | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

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