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...event. The choice is in no way an accolade or a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone came close to being runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928). The two criteria for the choice are always these: Who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did most to change the news for better (like Stalin this year) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
Money was no factor in his decision to change, even though the Sun will probably pay less than the approximate $12,000 a year he has made on the Times, for Kieran makes a reputed $500 a week from Information, Please. He has also earned fame out of his Information, Please broadcasts, but the aloof Times has always looked down its nose at such programs and considered it an upstart in the field of information...
...quiet fame and continuing and increasing reputation as a mathematical physicist, and as the "father of physical chemistry," rests on a series of papers, from his Graphical Methods in the Thermodynamics of Fluids (1873) to his final Elementary Principles of Statistical Mechanics...
Coatesville, Pa. is a quiet little town of narrow streets, dozens of musty, old-fashioned saloons and only one real claim to fame: Lukens Steel Co., a small, smart, fast-growing outfit which is now one of the largest U.S. makers of armor plate. Last week Lukens announced it had quadrupled plate output in the year ended Oct. 10, turned out enough armor for a dozen warships (battleships, cruisers, carriers) and hundreds of army tanks to boot...
...founded in 1810. Badly located for raw materials, it limped along until 1825, when upholstered, ambitious, 3O-year-old Rebecca Lukens inherited the business, became the first big-time U.S. female executive (see cut). Rebecca read steel cost sheets by sunlight and Shakespeare by candlelight, in 22 years won fame & fortune for herself and Lu kens. When she died in 1847, the business went to Son-in-law Dr. Charles Huston, whose descendants still own 37% of the company...