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Died. William Nelson Cromwell, 94, eminent New York corporation lawyer (founding partner of Sullivan & Cromwell); in Manhattan. One of the organizers of U.S. Steel, Cromwell was the last surviving principal (as general counsel) of the dubious New Panama Canal Co. that paid French engineering interests an estimated $5,000,000 "for canal rights in Panama, talked Theodore Roosevelt into buying them up for $40 million...
Idleness sat ill on Klondike Mike. Along with his Alaskan partner, George Rich, he started a trucking business in Ottawa, built it into one of the biggest in Canada. Then he took a major step. At 53, he learned to read and write...
Hughes Sr. converted his Peerless into a speedster (see cut), raced it against one owned by Financier Hetty Green's son, and won. He raced against Barney Oldfield, the celebrated professional, and lost. The Hugheses moved to Houston, where Hughes Sr. looked for oil. With his partner, Walter Sharp, he struck oil in the Goose Creek field, but the two-edged "fishtail" bits used in those days broke on subterranean rock. Thereupon Hughes designed a conical bit with 166 cutting edges. That tool is the original source and still the main prop of the Hughes fortune, which now amounts...
...showed his interest in gadgets by taking pictures with a box camera. Later he showed his inordinate persistence by practicing on the saxophone at all hours of the day & night, until he had mastered it. Young Howard and his playmate, Dudley Sharp (son of Hughes Sr.'s partner), built a wireless set, mostly out of old doorbell parts and other junk. When Howard asked for a motorcycle and was refused, he made a motor out of an automobile self-starter and attached it to his bicycle. It ran. His interest in mechanical things, always much stronger than his interest...
Miss Stenz treats baldness with two solutions (one red, one white) developed by her partner, Biochemist Irwin J. Bash. The solutions, says Bash, make the scalp unpalatable to the fungus. Some of the satisfied customers who believe that their scalps have been de-fungused and re-haired by Stenz & Bash: Cinemactors Jimmy Stewart, Dick Powell, Gig Young, Gene Kelly...