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...version of army transport trucks, late Friday afternoon. Some 500 undergraduates gathered to see the team off and to cheer. They opened with three times three for Harvard and then gave each of the 22 men a separate yell. After cheering the trainet, the coaches and excaptain Cunnock, inventor of the tackling dummy, the crowd chased the barges from the Johnson gate to the site of the Union, cheering madly and ending up with a three times nine...
...when the station graduated from experimental ranks) to $177,074 in 1940. Just for the hell of it, Mr. Hogan augmented WQXR's income in 1939 with $20,000 picked up by selling Hogan-devised sets to WQXR listeners. He was an associate of Radio Inventor Lee de Forest...
...127th birthday, a dance program was dedicated to the late Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax, inventor of the saxophone and thereby the unwitting father of the modern dance band. Dedicator was Bandleader Shep Fields, who lately gave up his trade-mark "Rippling Rhythm," threw out his brass, concentrated on nine saxophones...
...This is the greatest contribution to aluminum metallurgy since the Hall process of 1886-if it is cheap as the inventor says." So commented the Aluminum Co. of America on a new process for extracting alumina from common clay announced last week by Chemical Engineer Arthur W. Hixson of Columbia University...
Died. Harold Fowler McCormick, 69, reaper millionaire, Chicago opera angel; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills. Son of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the revolutionary McCormick reaper, Harold and Brother Cyrus Jr. built their father's business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska...