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...wartime casualty, the ten and one half mile race in 1947 will be the first since 1942, when John T. Potter '45 set a record of 28 minutes, 30 seconds...
Elgin hopes that the spring will help it recapture a big chunk of the $400,000,000-a-year U.S. watch business from the fiercely competitive Swiss. Under President Thomas Albert Potter, 63, Elgin has come a long way since he left Quaker Oats Co. in 1932 to take over the depression-sick company. By 1940 Elgin was the biggest U.S. watch company. But during the war, the three big U.S. jeweled watchmakers (the other two: Hamilton, Waltham) switched to war work. With them out of the business, the Swiss boosted their U.S. sales almost 300% to about...
When Hamilton F. Potter, Jr. '50 inserted a notice. "Jilted Freshman desires 120 ibs, of American womanhood" last September, he little expected the results that ensued. Six beauties and two Olobe photographers were on hand when he entered his room that night, and the resulting picture was flashed across the country. The fun ended with a telegram from his father...
...Captain Carlos A. Blanco, Robert Carswell, Curtis W. Cate, Kenneth K. Chun, Arnold S. Corrigan, William F. G. Dawson, John B. Ensign, Richard H. Forster, Richard R. Harshman, Roger B. Lazarus, Donald Louria, John A. Malcolm, Huntington Mavor, Albert W. Merck, Hugh W. Morse, David D. Ogdon, Philip C. Potter, Jr., Robert L. Purinton, Thomas B. Ragle, Manager; Francis A. Seamans, and Robert L. Smith...
European biographers did little better. Biographical surprise-of-the-year was Britisher Margaret Lane's admirable The Tale of Beatrix Potter, the story of the eccentric lady who fashioned and illustrated the children's beloved Peter Rabbit. Charles Dickens, by Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, cast no light on Dickens' working manners, much on his bedside manner. Stefan Zweig's posthumous, unfinished Balzac might have said more if Zweig had lived to finish the telling. Hesketh Pearson's Oscar Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either...