Word: holley
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Died. George Malvin Holley, 85, auto pioneer who in 1902 was asked by Henry Ford to design a fuel system, produced an "iron pot" carburetor to stoke the engines of 15 million model Ts (as well as Buicks, Pierce-Arrows, Winstons), went on in 1935 to develop the fuel system for the model T of aviation, the Douglas DC-3, and built his Holley Carburetor Co. to current sales of more than $50 million annually; after a long illness; in Detroit...
Died. Winthrop Holley Brooks, 73, former president (1935-46) and board chairman (1946-51) of sartorially impeccable Brooks Brothers, fourth successor to Founder Henry Sands Brooks, who wanted to be a cowboy but reluctantly tended the store until he sold "B.B." in 1946 to Washington's Julius Garfinckel & Co.; after a long illness; in New York City...
...townsmen, who now form something like a private labor union inside modern jazz. Hank Jones remains his idea of a really good pianist, and for the trio he hopes to form eventually, he would like Hank's brother Elvin on drums and Detroit's Major Holley on bass...