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Chief beneficiary of all this brouhaha is Doughnut Corp.'s board chairman and controlling stockholder, Adolph Levitt. Operating a chain of bakeries after World War I, Levitt found that Salvation Army lassies had made doughboys doughnut-conscious, that the new market thus created needed a mass-produced doughnut, uniform and digestible. After engineers produced for him an efficient doughnut machine, Pioneer Levitt organized Display Doughnut Machine Corp. (later Doughnut Corp.) to sell it to independent bakers. In 1925 Levitt put out a standardized mix, later supplied patrons with optional trade names (most famous: Downyflake, Mayflower...
Seldom seen, seldom heard. Tycoon Levitt avoids the spotlight, leaves evangelical work to dark, dynamic Alfred...
First important act of the U. S. Supreme Court's 1937-38 session was, as anticipated, to dispose of the petition by Lawyer Albert Levitt, that Associate Justice Hugo LaFayette Black be required to prove his eligibility (TIME, Oct. 11). Also as anticipated, the petition was denied. Said solemn Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes last week...
Tabor, a science instructor at Episcopal Academy who, wearing a skating cap and sheepskin coat, "shoots" on fair nights from 7 o'clock to n. Dr. I. M. Levitt of Franklin Institute comes out every day to make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type...
Here is the way Louis got his start: "I arrived at Harvard Square at about 7. I did not know one building from the other so I went over to Levitt and Pierce's and got myself a Harvard directory this had all the names of every Harvard student and his room number...