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...Plantation's hero, Ed Ruffin, is a dying man, and as he waits for the end, friends and relations spin the web of his life out of their memories. It has been the kind of life that gets lived a great deal oftener than it gets written about-the life of a good and gentle man from whom others take, not because he is a dupe, but because it is his nature to give...
...CHARLES RUFFIN HOOK JR., 38, vice president in charge of personnel of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., to be Deputy Postmaster General. Son of a wealthy Ohio industrialist (now board chairman of Armco Steel Corp.), handsome Charlie Hook married a Morgan heiress, is a popular and ornamental member of Cleveland society...
Plain Talker. But no one was truer to the image of the ruggedly free businessman N.A.M. likes to see than its new president, William J. Grede (rhymes with Brady), 54, boss of Milwaukee's Grede Foundries, Inc. Elected to replay William H. Ruffin, president of Durham, N.C.'s Erwin Mills, Inc., Bill Grede describes himself as a "foundry man or sand rat, as we call it." By selling pots & pans, he worked his way through two years at the University of Wisconsin, then quit to invest in a small foundry. Ever since, he has been running...
...president, N.A.M. elected high-domed William H. Ruffin, 51, president of Durham, N.C.'s Erwin Mills, Inc. He succeeds Claude A. Putnam, president of the Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H. President Ruffin was born & bred in Louisburg, N.C., went to work 29 years ago at a weaving machine in Erwin's textile mills and climbed steadily until he became president in 1948. Ruffin, who describes himself as a "moderately large manufacturer," employs 7,400 in his mills, is the first N.A.M. president to come from the soft-goods industry...
...request of the Quartermaster General's Office, Drs. Julian Meade Ruffin and David Cayer conducted a month-long study of vitamin reactions on healthy people. Two hundred medical students and technicians at Duke University School of Medicine were given the same average American food; some took supplemental vitamins, some didn't. Result, for the vitamin eaters: "no demonstrable beneficial effect...