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Died. Eugene Jules Houdry, 70, Paris-born inventor and chemist, who scored one of the most significant advances in the history of the oil industry with his Houdry process for catalytic cracking that made better gasoline; following surgery for cancer; in Upper Darby...
...party after another. The ineluctable Peggy Guggenheim gave a series of luncheons and dinners at her palazzo on the Grand Canal. Entertaining at a Tiepolo-lined rented palazzo was the flamboyant Greek-born beauty, Iris Clert, whose far-out gallery in Paris is credited with discovering Jean Tinguely, inventor of machine-operated sculptures that destroy themselves, and the late monochromist Yves Klein, who used his nude models as "living brushes." Her star discovery this year was Harold Stevenson, a young man from Idabel, Okla. He dresses from head to foot in white and sports a white flower in his buttonhole...
...intervention in 1956 of Argus Corp. Ltd.. an aggressive Canadian investment trust. Argus, after getting a controlling interest in the company, put in as president Albert A. Thornbrough. a onetime farm boy from Kansas who was one of the assets Massey acquired when it merged with British Inventor Harry Ferguson's tractor company in 1953. Thornbrough promptly set the company on a new course. North American farms, he reasoned, were now so heavily mechanized that they must be considered a "mature" market. The real growth opportunity lay in the rest of the world, where agriculture was still heavily...
...idea attracted Mrs. Emmons Blaine, daughter of Reaper Inventor Cyrus McCormick, who gave the colonel $1,000,000 to launch the Parker School in 1901. The colonel spawned all sorts of innovations in U.S. education-specialized teachers, morning assemblies, the teaching of art, music and drama...
...Inventor Knox, 35, a designer of medical instruments, owns the Orbiteer outright through the Knox Instrument Co., of which he is president. Orders for the Orbiteer have already run over...