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Originally from St. Paul, Minn., Brooks received his A.B. from Harvard in 1911, and his Ph.D. in 1914. Before returning to Harvard as an instructor, Brooks taught at Yale and Clark Universities. In 1931, he was appointed director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Milton, Mass., where he served until...
...Singer Manufacturing Co. since 1952, was picked as president to succeed 67-year-old Milton C. Lightner (see Management). Kircher, whose latest assignment has been overseeing Singer's current overseas expansion (Brazil, Japan, the Philippines and Australia) as Lightner's assistant, was born in St. Paul, Minn., graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1939, joined the Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts. He served 21 months in Europe during World War II as a tank commander, was twice wounded, returned to the U.S. with three Silver Stars, the Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm...
Married. Don Larsen, 28, New York Yankee pitcher and baseball immortal (the only perfect game in World Series history, against the Brooklyn Dodgers last year); and onetime Airline Stewardess Corrine Audrey Bruess, 26; he for the second time, she for the first; in Benson, Minn...
Herpetology & St. John's. The man who bosses today's jet and missile Air Force was born in Walker, Minn, in 1901-just two years before the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. His maternal great-grandfather was Charles Dresser, the Episcopal minister who performed the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. His father, John Chanler White, an Episcopal minister of Springfield, Ill. and later a bishop, encouraged Tommy to go to church once weekly, to join the Boy Scouts. Tommy's earliest interest was catching snakes at his family's summer cottage at Lake...
...fans by playing in movie houses, churches, synagogues and high-school auditoriums (one concert will be sponsored by the Katz Drug Co.; admittance: a cash-register receipt). Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera opens this week with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, while in Fergus Falls, Minn. (pop. 14,000) a bravura rendering of Norwegian folk songs was given by a 70-voice male chorus, and 300 citizens were studying Handel's Messiah for a Christmas performance...