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...Menlo Park, Calif...
Indian Summer. In Menlo Park, Calif., Charles E. Brown, 82, had to call off his 62nd wedding-anniversary party when he came down with mumps...
Married. Herbert Hoover III, 21, Menlo Junior College (Calif.) student, grandson of the 31st President of the U.S., son of Geophysicist Herbert Jr.; and Meredith McGilvray, 21, a childhood sweetheart, now a Stanford University Coed; in Virginia City...
...making a profit on the crop. Afterwards he built a Gothic quadrangle for her school, spending millions. He loved and collected the relics of the old, slow age which he had destroyed. In his Greenfield Village near Dearborn, he lovingly set up Abraham Lincoln's courthouse and the Menlo Park workshop of his hero, Thomas Edison. He filled his museum with stage coaches, buggies, prairie schooners, old furniture, old tools, old junk...
Thomas Edison once tried magnetic concentration of low-grade iron ore, as Henry Ford discovered in the records of Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory while rebuilding it in his Greenfield Village. So Ford gave this line of research in 1929 as a first assignment to Robert Boyer, who worked off & on at it while developing his famed plastic auto body (TIME...