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Limmer ski boots, approaching in their field the status of Louisville Sluggers in baseball, have brought respect and renown to Peter and his boot-making family. The Limmer boots are definitely a family affair; his wife and two sons work along with him in the production of these eagerly-sought downhill delights. Working as a team, Peter, his wife, and his sons, Peter Jr. and Francis, yearly turn over 100 pairs of handmade ski boots, spending the rest of their working time on his equally famous one-piece walking shoes and climbing boots...
...head coaches and two assistant coaches, including Cornell's venerable (85) Jack Moakley. His well-tutored pupils won six events. In his 50 years as track coach at Cornell, Jack Moakley had developed more championship track squads than he could remember. But he won even more renown as a competitor who put as much emphasis on sportsmanship as on winning. In 1920, when he went to Antwerp as coach of the U.S. Olympic team, Jack Moakley had time for all foreign athletes who sought his advice and guidance. When Canada's star hurdler, Earl Thomson, went lame...
Hamilton Holt's own idea for a successor was "either an old man of renown, or a young man with promise." Last week, the trustees voted for youth. At 31, big (6 ft. 1 in.), jut-jawed Paul Alexander Wagner, businessman and former instructor in education at the University of Chicago, will be the nation's youngest college president. When Rollins found him he was No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell...
...watchmaker, bearded Aaron Dennison was something of a genius. He invented an automatic cutter for watch wheels in 1833, and fathered mass production for the U.S. watch industry. As a businessman and founder of the famed Waltham Watch Co. of Waltham, Mass., his renown was of a different sort. His crazy ventures and his carelessness in letting his company go broke earned him the nickname, "Boston lunatic...
...Shameful Profession. It was a long stretch from the genteel poverty of the Kentucky farm where D. W. Griffith was born in 1875 to the international renown he achieved. He had wanted to be a writer, but all that he wrote floundered and failed. In the beginning he was ashamed to be an entertainer: he toured with road shows as Lawrence Griffith. He was stranded in tank towns, fired, overworked and underfed. Between roles, he did slob labor...