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Died. Jay Catherwood Hormel, 61, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co.; of a heart ailment; in Austin, Minn. As a World War I lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, Hormel won the plaudits of the brass by showing meat packers how to bone beef before it was shipped overseas (saving 40% in cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast...
Grand Rapids, Minn...
...Brother of Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul, Minn, and one of New York's leading criminal lawyers (about 300 murder cases). Attorney Murray has been retained to defend one of the Brooklyn teen-age thrill killers (TIME...
...little (pop. 500) Royalton, Minn., Vernon J. Pick was a successful small businessman. To expand his electric-motor-repair business, he had put in $40,000, all the money he had. Then disaster struck. His plant burned down, and it was insured for only $13,500. He collected the insurance money, sold his house and all its contents, and with his wife set off in a small truck and trailer for a Mexican vacation. Says Pick: "I figured it would be thelast one I'd have for some time...
...subscription-service division of any magazine that has reached the circulation of TIME (over 2,000,000) inevitably makes mistakes. And inevitably the subscribers concerned are quick to let us know about it. Such was the case of Subscriber V. W. Greene of St. Paul, Minn., who recently received a letter from Miss Mildred Shipley in TIME'S Chicago subscription office questioning him about his subscription payment. Subscriber Greene's reply...