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Special tutoring got him into Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 17, hard work won him his degree in three years instead of four. With the help of his father, he got a job as draftsman in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. at Harrison, NJ. John Wesley Hyatt, who had invented celluloid, was trying to make a go of a new bearing, with little success. When the company was about to go on the rocks, Sloan Sr. bought a controlling interest in it, put in his son to run it. For months, it was touch & go whether the company would continue...
...Scout can spoil his scoutmaster's day is to break out with a rash of poison ivy. Last week Scoutmaster F. W. James of Belleville, NJ. told the New York Times how he had met this crisis some 200 times in 26 years. He applies a wet dressing of aluminum acetate solution (a common, harmless astringent) for about ten minutes, daubs on more when itching returns. He said that most new cases clear overnight, most old ones in a few days...
Arlington, NJ...
...shady Americana (The Gangs of New York, The French Quarter, The Barbary Coast), associate editor of Collier's magazine, descendant of U.S. Methodism's first Bishop, Francis Asbury; and Edith Snyder Evans, 34, New York City Associated Press reporter; both for the second time; in Fort Lee, NJ...
EUGENE WEISS Orange, NJ...