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...Tiger may not melt, but he will certainly mellow tomorrow night--along with the rest of Cambridge--and when local imbibers find that the ice is melting and the spirits weakening, they may well turn to a new invention of Howard H. Hopson '46, which replaces the broken bottle cork with a glorified spigot...
...Hopson, who is now in the market for a partner to bring capital into a growing enterprise, has built his gimmick--now retailing for $70--around the age-old standby and social catalyst of a tray of ice cubes...
Whether "The Wellesley" will ever take the place of the well-scoured bath tub or the well-flattened elbow is not yet clear. And there exists in some doubt as to whether Hopson's ingenious gadget will threaten the existence of the bottle-opener or the swizzle-stick...
...unsullied ice-cube. And that is that a Harvard man has done it again. The Class of 1946 has come up with not only a thing of beauty, but a device that will save humanity several drinking centuries of stirring, shaving ice, and emptying jiggers. To Mr. Hopson a toast--open the spigots and down the hatch...
Created by Howard Colwell Hopson, at one time a key man in New York state public utility regulation, Associated Gas was one of the most complex promotional extravaganzas of all time. Now, its capital structure deflated, its subsidiaries reduced by sales, mergers and liquidations from 179 to 46, it was thriving as a normal, healthy holding company. But neither normal nor healthy was Promoter Hopson; jailed for mail fraud and income-tax evasion, he went insane, is now in a New York sanatorium...