Word: ketcham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit motormaker received a wire like this from Manhattan and if he were a client of Color Engineer Howard Ketcham, he would realize that he was not getting garbled code advice to buy raw materials but a sample of a new body color...
Last week Mr. Ketcham announced and demonstrated "Colorcable," his patented method of transmitting color from any where to anywhere in a matter of minutes. Confronted with a color sample at the transmitting end, the operator takes a number of variously colored disks, inserts them in a calibrated, electrically driven wheel. Whirling the wheel resolves the disks into one tone. Disks are added or subtracted until the color appearing on the wheel matches that of the sample. Then the number and color-designations of the disks are wired to the receiver, who has a disk-&-wheel...
...American Airways has hired Ketcham to decorate the interiors of the Clippers now being built for the South American and Pacific runs. He is proceeding on the theory that certain colors are conducive to nausea, while others breed "confidence and cheer." Cheerful green is the keynote for furniture, sheets and blankets. Mr. Ketcham advises airlines not to serve coffee or mayonnaise, on the ground that yellow and coffee colors offend stomachs already quivering from rough...
...pound class: D. P. Ketcham 1L defeated R. S. Russell '35, by decision...
...Ketcham '32, captain, P. W. A. Hines '34, and M. J. A. Adlis '32 are the three men chosen, and since the trials come during the spring vacation, there is little doubt that they will obtain official consent to participate in the bouts. Ketcham, this year's captain, has an enviable record as light-weight in college boxing, and this year has scored two knockouts out of four bouts. Adlis has been on the team for two years, and Hines was on the Freshman team last year, winning all his houts as well as the University middleweight championship...