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...corner of a lumberyard and built a prototype. Frank took it to Chicago and showed it to Montgomery Ward officials, who astonished the three partners by ordering 250 for the 1947 Christmas season. Ward soon upped the order to 1,000, then 2,000. The partners incorporated as Magna Engineering Corp. (after Magna, Utah, home town of the brothers' parents). In 1948, its first full year, Magna sold $3,000,000 worth of Shopsmiths. Last year it grossed nearly...
...Magna, now headquartered in a new, brick-and-glass building in Menlo Park, Calif., is still owned and operated by the three founders. While President Bob Chambers takes care of sales and advertising and Treasurer Frank Chambers looks after purchasing, Vice President Goldschmidt concentrates on inventing. Says he: Some new Magna products "will be just as revolutionary in their way as the Shopsmith...
...magna cum laude for your article on the New York City public schools. It is an intelligent and moving insight into the tortuous process of adapting education from its aristocratic traditions into an instrument of service to a democracy . . . By faith, the public schools are trying to move cultural mountains . . . Some of the trigger-happy your critics article, should be and then required to take ' do a homework on postgraduate course at the feet of Principal [Margaret] Douglas and other devoted members of the system...
Five men on the CCA slate, however, deserve full support. Of top caliber is Edward Crane, a Harvard magna, Phi Bete, and Law School graduate. Crane's great interest in Cambridge civic affairs--apparent since his undergraduate days when he wrote his thesis on the city-manager plan, even though that was then a system new to Cambridge--his intimate knowledge of the city, and his cagerness to make it better, qualify him as the most outstanding example of an experienced councillor...
...freshman dormitory, and gathered a group of five good friends, all of whom stuck together throughout college. He gave up his one venture into athletics, freshman basketball, to devote all his time to study. His singleness of purpose gained for Pusey membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and a magna degree in English literature...