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Died. George Holmes Maxwell, 68, Boston philanthropist, president of North American Chemical Co.; in Pasadena...
Died. George Hoffman, longtime president of Hoffman Specialty Co. of Hartford (valves, machinery), father of Paul Gray Hoffman, vice president (sales) of Studebaker Corp. (see p. 41); in Pasadena...
...Hoffman (sales). Salesman Hoffman last week was hurrying to California to attend the funeral of his father, George Hoffman who was head of Hoffman Specialty Co. (valves & machinery) and who ran it well for years despite the fact that its plant was in Hartford, Conn. and his home in Pasadena. But mainspring of Studebaker is its Mr. Erskine, first citizen of South Bend. He was with the company as treasurer when the present corporation was formed in 1911. In 1915 he succeeded Frederick Samuel Fish as president. Under him Studebaker did its $24,000,000 War business (saddles, wagons, harness...
...Ellsworth Vines: "I found Ellsworth working in Kay's Bakery Shop in Pasadena. . . . He had a Western grip and a roundhouse swing, was about six feet tall and his feet wouldn't be friends with each other. But he had the heart and the willingness. . . . He was determined to hit hard . . . while I fretted over errors...
...Millikan was just leaving Pasadena for Winnipeg when he heard about his friendly rival's telegram. From Winnipeg, where he may encounter Dr. Compton, he will fly with an electroscope to as close to the North Magnetic Pole as Royal Canadian Air Corps planes can carry him. There he will make his own cosmic ray readings, then soar eagle-wise southwards to Texas, getting U. S. Army planes after he crosses the border, making electroscopic observations all along...