Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy Hart had a tough time struggling through Annapolis. Born in David son, Mich., of Revolutionary stock on his father's side, Scottish on his mother's, Tommy Hart was an undersized 15-year-old when he won his appointment to the Naval Academy. There he was derisively christened "Dad." Puny, next to the youngest in his class, he wobbled along For a couple of years, picking up a bit of wooden-ship lore on summer cruises in square-riggers, distinguishing himself not at all. But in his last two years at the Academy he began...
Until this spring, Dow drew all its magnesium from its inexhaustible brine wells at Midland, Mich. From these it is now extracting magnesium at the rate of 12,000 tons a year-26 times as much as in 1929. This spring Dow tapped a new source which has stirred everyone's imagination : it began mining sea water for magnesium at a great $15,000,000 plant at Freeport, Tex., which by year's end will be sucking in 12,000,000 gallons a day (enough water for a city of 120,000) and turning out 50 tons...
RODNEY DEWEY Onsted, Mich...
Married. Cobina Wright Jr., 19, blue-blood cinemactress; and Corporal Palmer T. Beaudette, 28, wealthy son of a Pontiac, Mich., automobile family; in Manhattan...
Richard W. Allen, of Detroit, Mich., as Teaching Fellow in Spanish; A. M. Harvard...