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Comic Eddie Cantor, 65 last January, was set to join the small roster of well-heeled showfolk collecting Social Security old-age benefits (some others: Francis X. Bushman, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason). Whenever Millionaire Cantor and wife Ida get their monthly $161.70 (for any month in which Eddie earns less than $80), they will forward it to a New York boys' camp where Cantor gamboled 53 summers...
When Marion Gleason was a busy housewife with four small children, she had an experience that leaves any mother limp: the maid who gave year-old Peter his morning tablespoonful of cod-liver oil picked up the wrong bottle one day, and the baby became violently ill. The bottle contained a strong disinfectant. Peter recovered (he is now, at 31, a radiologist). Last week, thanks largely to that experience, the name of his mother, Marion N. Gleason, appeared as senior author (although she has no degree in medicine or chemistry) over the names of two double-doctorate professors...
Robert M. Garrels, associate professor of Geology, and Andrew M. Gleason, associate professor of Mathematics, have received promotions to professorships in their respective departments, Dean Bundy announced yesterday...
...Gleason ended a 50-year mathematical search with his solution of "Hilbert's Fifth Problem," which won him the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for an "outstanding contribution to science...
...Gleason served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and again during the Korean Conflict...