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...next afternoon (again at 2031 Locust), Duff, Taft and Stassen sat down with Connecticut's national committeeman, Harold Mitchell (representing favorite son Ray Baldwin), and Kim Sigler, governor of Michigan, leader of the Vandenberg forces. California's Earl Warren was represented by a close friend, Preston Hotchkiss. They figured that the coalition could count on 630 votes-more than enough to stop Dewey...
Died. Laurence Vincent Benet, 85, West Point-born manufacturer of the French Hotchkiss machine gun, uncle to Poets William Rose Benet and the late Stephen Vincent Benet; in Washington. Benet sold the Hotchkiss, which he perfected to fire 550 shots a minute, to all comers, but was touchy about his reputation as a "merchant of death," once reassured a visitor that "my fingers are not dripping blood this morning...
...Stalling! Stalling!" The day before the matches, the U.S. girls practiced under a blazing sun on the Forest Hills (L.I.) courts, subject to the stern eye and acid comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...
Governor Gruening (pronounced greening) was born (1887) in New York City. His father, Dr. Emil Gruening, a famous physician, wanted his only son to be a doctor. At Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, and later at Harvard, Ernest Gruening had agreed wholeheartedly. But during three years at Harvard Medical School he developed an overwhelming curiosity about social and political developments and an itch to become a newspaperman...
When Lewis Lapham came home to San Francisco after Hotchkiss and Yale ("I'm one of those mass-produced guys"), he wasn't interested in working for his father, then A-H's president. Instead, he wrote a shipping column for Hearst's Examiner, learned about the waterfront and gained a reputation for brains and high spirits. After six years of this, he went to work for A-H and was lent to the Waterfront Employers Association. Shippers think that he had a lot to do with improving labor relations. During the war, when ulcers kept...