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...Translator. The man who has at last brought Cervantes' masterpiece to life in English spent 17 years directly on the job and a lifetime indirectly preparing for it. Samuel Putnam began translating in Latin class at Hoopeston, Ill. High School, was so good at it that he won a Latin scholarship to the University of Chicago. Ill health kept him from earning a degree but not from trying his writing hand at newspaper work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Elected director of Western Union Telegraph Co. last week (to succeed new Aid-to-Britain Expediter William Averell Harriman) was Ernest Eden Norris, president of Southern Railway. Director Norris' last association with Western Union was as an $8-a-month operator in Hoopeston, Ill. in the 1890s. When a visiting inspector found that his cronies had turned the office into a clubroom, he was fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Rehiring | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Besides its California centres (San Jose, Fresno, Los Angeles, Riverside), Food Machinery has plants at Portland, Ore. (apples, pears, tomatoes), Dunedin, Fla. (oranges, grapefruit), Massillon, Ohio (pumps), Lansing, Mich, (sprayers, motor products) and Hoopeston, Ill. (corn-canning). At Hoopeston was developed a can-filling machine, designed for corn, but also used by oil companies in their development of the market for canned motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Machines for Food | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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